Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Feb 16.
Published in final edited form as: J Pers. 2022 Dec 30;92(1):243–260. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12801

TABLE 4.

Standardized estimates and 95% confidence intervals for the effects of occupational status and the moderating effects of childhood SES and baseline age of personality change on the levels and changes in personality trait domains.

Effects of OS
Moderating effects of cSES
Moderating effects of age
OS OS cSES OS × cSES OS Age OS × age
SATSA
N Level −0.07 [−0.148, 0.004] −0.06 [−0.15,0.03] 0.00 [−0.08, 0.08] −0.04 [−0.13, 0.06] −0.11 [−0.19, −0.02] 0.01 [−0.05, 0.07] 0.04 [−0.05, 0.14]
N Change 0.02 [−0.10,0.15] 0.02 [−0.12,0.16] −0.18 [−0.34, −0.02] 0.13 [−0.05, 0.31] 0.06 [−0.07, 0.19] 0.25 [0.11, 0.39] −0.01 [−0.23, 0.20]
E Level 0.09 [0.02, 0.17] 0.09 [0.004, 0.166] 0.02 [−0.05, 0.09] −0.03 [−0.11, 0.05] 0.10 [0.01,0.19] −0.05 [−0.12, 0.01] −0.03 [−0.11,0.06]
E Change −0.16 [−0.29, −0.04] −0.18 [−0.33, −0.03] 0.00 [−0.16,0.16] 0.05 [−0.13,0.22] −0.18 [−0.31, −0.04] −0.12 [−0.26, 0.02] −0.10 [−0.28, 0.09]
0 Level 0.28 [0.21, 0.36] 0.25 [0.16, 0.34] 0.14 [0.07, 0.22] −0.01 [−0.10,0.08] 0.28 [0.19, 0.36] −0.12 [−0.19, −0.06] 0.04 [−0.06, 0.13]
0 Change −0.02 [−0.20, 0.16] 0.03 [−0.17, 0.22] 0.01 [−0.17,0.18] −0.08 [−0.33,0.17] −0.02 [−0.20, 0.16] −0.29 [−0.47, −0.12] −0.36 [−0.65, −0.06]
MIDUS
N Level −0.11 [−0.14, −0.07] −0.11 [−0.15, −0.07] −0.05 [−0.08, −0.01] 0.08 [0.04, 0.11] −0.13 [−0.17, −0.09] −0.15 [−0.18, −0.12] −0.03 [−0.07, 0.01]
N Change −0.06 [−0.16, 0.03] −0.06 [−0.16,0.05] 0.02 [−0.08,0.11] −0.03 [−0.14, 0.07] −0.09 [−0.20, 0.03] 0.05 [−0.05,0.15] −0.05 [−0.17, 0.07]
E Level −0.02 [−0.06, 0.01] −0.04 [−0.08, −0.01] 0.09 [0.06, 0.12] 0.00 [−0.04, 0.03] −0.03 [−0.07, 0.01] −0.02 [−0.05, 0.01] −0.01 [−0.05, 0.03]
E Change 0.01 [−0.09,0.10] 0.01 [−0.08,0.10] −0.04 [−0.13, 0.05] 0.04 [−0.05, 0.13] 0.06 [−0.04, 0.15] 0.05 [−0.04, 0.13] 0.11 [−0.002, 0.216]
0 Level 0.19 [0.16, 0.23] 0.17 [0.14, 0.21] 0.13 [0.10, 0.16] −0.05 [−0.08, −0.01] 0.23 [0.19, 0.27] −0.06 [−0.09, −0.03] 0.08 [0.04, 0.12]
0 Change −0.04 [−0.11, 0.03] −0.03 [−0.10, 0.04] −0.04 [−0.11, 0.03] 0.02 [−0.05, 0.10] −0.05 [−0.13,0.03] 0.02 [−0.05, 0.09] −0.03 [−0.11,0.06]
C Level 0.09 [0.05, 0.13] 0.10 [0.06, 0.15] 0.03 [−0.01, 0.07] −0.08 [−0.12, −0.04] 0.10 [0.05, 0.14] 0.07 [0.04, 0.11] −0.01 [−0.05, 0.04]
C Change 0.06 [−0.07,0.18] 0.08 [−0.06, 0.22] −0.05 [−0.18,0.08] −0.01 [−0.15,0.13] 0.13 [−0.03,0.27] −0.44 [−0.65, −0.23] 0.18 [0.01,0.35]
A Level −0.09 [−0.12, −0.05] −0.08 [−0.12, −0.04] −0.03 [−0.063, 0.001] −0.01 [−0.04, 0.03] −0.10 [−0.13, −0.06] 0.09 [0.06, 0.12] −0.02 [−0.06, 0.02]
A Change 0.04 [−0.05, 0.13] 0.02 [−0.06,0.11] −0.01 [−0.09, 0.08] 0.05 [−0.04, 0.14] 0.07 [−0.03, 0.17] −0.05 [−0.14, 0.04] 0.08 [−0.03, 0.18]

Note: Estimates significant after applying Benjamini-Hochberg correction are in bold.

Abbreviations: A, agreeableness; C, conscientiousness; cSES, childhood SES; E, extraversión; N, neuroticism; O, openness; OS, occupational status.