Table 1.

Density Distributions of State Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Emotional Stability in Daily Life (Study 1)

Distribution Parameter	Extraversion	Agreeableness	Emotional Stability
Average level	3.41	5.18	4.97
Variance between individuals	.29 (19%)	.22 (37%)	.41 (47%)
Variance within individuals	1.23 (81%)	.37 (63%)	.47 (53%)
Stability of individual differences
In average level	.84**	.88**	.92**
In amount of variation	.72**	.65**	.61**

Note. Results of three unconditional multilevel models, one for each state (N = 80 individuals, N = 3784 to 3969 occasions). The average level shows the typical participant's mean level of the state. Percentages indicate that the percents of total variance in states that occurred within participants were much greater than the percentage of total variation in states that occurred between participants. Nonetheless, the stability lines indicate that individual differences in average state level and in amount of variation in states were both stable from one week to the next.

^**p < .01.