Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

2-2025

Abstract

College graduates transitioning to the workforce completed a 13-week, light, psychoeducation intervention designed to increase volitional personality change motivation via weekly email newsletters. Contrary to expectations, the intervention did not significantly enhance overall change motivation or consistently inspire desired trait change goals following the study period or after 6 or 10 months. However, participants in the intervention group did report increased desire to change emotional stability at specific points during the study. These findings underscore the limitations of this particular psychoeducational intervention approach and help to fill in the boundary conditions of when and how personality change is possible. Additionally, using pre-registered analyses, we successfully replicated key findings in volitional personality change literature, effectively laying a foundation for future research.

Keywords

Volitional personality change, Motivation, Idiographic-nomothetic, Longitudinal

Discipline

Industrial and Organizational Psychology | Organizational Behavior and Theory | Personality and Social Contexts

Research Areas

Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources

Publication

Journal of Research in Personality

Volume

114

First Page

1

Last Page

11

ISSN

0092-6566

Identifier

10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104549

Publisher

Elsevier

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104549

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