Table 7.
Five-year latent factor score test–retest stability coefficients
| Young Adults (N = 4,232) | Middle-Aged Adults (N = 5,503) | Older Adults (N = 3,724) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | E | O | A | C | N | E | O | A | C | N | E | O | A | C | |
| All conditions | .808 | .807 | .715 | .751 | .699 | .839 | .872 | .750 | .851 | .703 | .795 | .790 | .734 | .740 | .659 |
| Method change | .723 | .758 | .689 | .745 | .645 | .782 | .844 | .712 | .778 | .598 | .800 | .701 | .687 | .702 | .562 |
| FACE | .810 | .714 | .676 | .720 | .662 | .787 | .850 | .703 | .835 | .702 | .769 | .766 | .736 | .711 | .699 |
| SELF | .838 | .881 | .780 | .789 | .763 | .919 | .907 | .837 | .897 | .744 | .880 | .905 | .749 | .850 | .591 |
Young adults: Change, N = 709; FACE, N = 1,720; SELF, N = 1,803. Middle-aged adults: Change, N = 763; FACE, N = 2,589; SELF, N = 2,151. Older adults: Change, N = 351; FACE, N = 2,459; SELF, N = 914
N Neuroticism, E Extraversion, O Openness, A Agreeableness, C Conscientiousness