. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Res Pers. 2012 Jun 1;46(3):334–344. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2012.03.002

Table 5.

Comparison of Correlated Change for Young Adults and Middle-Aged Adults

	Correlated Change
	Young Adults		Middle-Age Adults		Model Comparison
	r	Covariance 95% CI	r	Covariance 95% CI	χ²(2)
Extraversion	−.01	0.00 ± 0.12	.06	0.03 ± 0.10	0.16
Agreeableness	.33	0.09 ± 0.14	.12	0.10 ± 0.12	2.42
Conscientiousness	.21	0.16 ± 0.14	.15	0.09 ± 0.07	3.93
Emotional Stability	.30	0.22 ± 0.31	−.05	−0.05 ± 0.22	1.90
Openness	.00	0.09 ± 0.18	.13	0.08 ± 0.12	0.84

Note: 95% CI = 95% confidence interval; all correlations are between personality traits and composite social investment at work; all chi-square values were not statistically significant, indicating that constraining the correlated change to be equal across young and middle-age adults did not significantly improve the fit of the model