Question

Specht and colleagues (2011) found that emotional stability, extraversion, openness, and agreeableness were ______ in early adulthood, ________ between 40–60 years of age, and _____ in late adulthood.

Answer 1

low; peaked; decreased 

Specht and colleagues (2011) found that emotional stability, extraversion, openness, and agreeableness were low in early adulthood, peaked between 40–60 years of age, and decreased in late adulthood.

Specht and his colleagues conducted a study in 2011 to test how individuals' scores on McCrae & Costa's Big 5 personality Test traits (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism) vary across their lifespan. The study found that emotional stability, extraversion, openness and agreeableness formed a U-shaped function, where they were low in early adulthood, peaked at age 40-60 and started declining after age 60.

Answer 2

Specht and colleagues (2011) found that emotional stability, extraversion, openness, and agreeableness were low in early adulthood, peaked between 40–60 years of age, and decreased in late adulthood.

The correct options are low; peaked; decreased.

According to a study carried out by Spetch and his colleagues in 2011, emotional stability, extraversion, openness and agreeableness, were low in early adulthood, peaked at age 40-60 and started to decline after age 60.