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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Pers Soc Psychol. 2011 Sep;101(3):620–637. doi: 10.1037/a0023743

Table 5.

Correlations Between Positive and Negative Life Events and Personality Trait Change

Life event

Personality trait Positive Negative
Neuroticism
    Intercept −.03 .24
    Slope −.24 .30
Extraversion
    Intercept .12 −.03
    Slope .14 −.10
Openness
    Intercept .12 .08
    Slope .11 .06
Agreeableness
    Intercept .03 −.04
    Slope .16 −.07
Conscientiousness
    Intercept .04 −.09
    Slope .16 −.06

Note. Values in bold are statistically significant at p < .05.