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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 13.
Published in final edited form as: Merrill Palmer Q (Wayne State Univ Press). 2004 Jan 1;50(1):86–109. doi: 10.1353/mpq.2004.0004

Table 3.

Mean Stability Scores by Age Group, With Standard Deviations in Parentheses

Age group
Trait Children Adolescents Adults
Nice
  short-term stability .94 (.16) .88 (.22) .83 (.24)
  long-term stability .88 (.22) .68 (.32) .74 (.26)
Mean
  short-term stability .85 (.29) .76 (.30) .78 (.29)
  long-term stability .37 (.38) .42 (37) .41 (.33)
Smart
  short-term stability .88 (.25) .90 (.20) .91 (.19)
  long-term stability .76 (.33) .72 (.33) .74 (.26)
Not smart
  short-term stability .68 (.44) .72 (.33) .72 (.36)
  long-term stability .46 (.42) .50 (.38) .41 (.29)

Note: Stability scores ranged from 0 to 1, with 0 indicating that the character would not continue to exhibit the trait in question relative to his or her peers.