Personality has consequences. Measures of personality have contemporaneous and predictive relations to a variety of important outcomes. Using the Big Five factors as heuristics for organizing the research literature, numerous consequential relations are identified. Personality dispositions are associated with happiness, physical and psychological health, spirituality, and identity at an individual level; associated with the quality of relationships with peers, family, and romantic others at an interpersonal level; and associated with occupational choice, satisfaction, and performance, as well as community involvement, criminal activity, and political ideology at a social institutional level.

Personality and the Prediction of Consequential Outcomes

This article focuses on the development of intercultural maturity, which is frequently cited as a desired collegiate outcome. We position our work on intercultural maturity in the context of a holistic approach to human development using Kegan's (1994) model as a foundation and relating this outcome to other collegiate learning outcomes. We introduce a multidimensional framework that describes the development of intercultural maturity. We first explicate the three dimensions of the framework, link these to existing theory and research on student develop- ment and intercultural competence, and then illustrate the developmental levels of the framework using examples from interviews with college students.

A Developmental Model of Intercultural Maturity

Happiness and other emotions spread between people in direct contact, but it is unclear whether massive online social networks also contribute to this spread. Here, we elaborate a novel method for measuring the contagion of emotional expression. With data from millions of Facebook users, we show that rainfall directly influences the emotional content of their status messages, and it also affects the status messages of friends in other cities who are not experiencing rainfall. For every one person affected directly, rainfall alters the emotional expression of about one to two other people, suggesting that online social networks may magnify the intensity of global emotional synchrony.

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Detecting Emotional Contagion in Massive Social Networks

Use of multiple social media platforms and symptoms of depression and anxiety

A review of LGBT identity development models reveals fluidity, complexity, and contradictions.

Analysis of LGBT identity development models and implications for practice

Identity in adolescence: change or stability

There is a widespread belief that weather affects mood. However, few studies have investigated this link, andeven less is known about individual differences in people’s responses to the weather. In the current study, wesought to identify weather reactivity types by linking self-reported daily mood across 30 days with objectiveweather data. We identified four distinct types among 497 adolescents and replicated these types among theirmothers. The types were labeled Summer Lovers (better mood with warmer and sunnier weather), Unaffected(weak associations between weather and mood), Summer Haters (worse mood with warmer and sunnierweather), and Rain Haters (particularly bad mood on rainy days). In addition, intergenerational concordanceeffects were found for two of these types, suggesting that weather reactivity may run in the family. Overall,the large individual differences in how people’s moods were affected by weather reconciles the discrepancybetween the generally held beliefs that weather has a substantive effect on mood and findings from previousresearch indicating that effects of weather on mood are limited or absent.

BRIEF REPORT Come Rain or Come Shine: Individual Differences in How Weather Affects Mood

Stressful events are associated with various outcomes, but there is variability in these associations suggesting that the interpretation of these events is important. This interpretation is reflected in the narratives adolescents tell of events, which are largely constructed in social interactions. We examined the associations of perceived friendship quality with self-event connections and redemption in turning point narratives, in a sample of Dutch adolescents. Findings from regression analyses in a cross-sectional subsample (N = 1087, Mage  = 14.8) and a three-wave cross-lagged panel model in a longitudinal subsample (N = 186, Mage at Wave 1  = 14.7) showed that perceived friendship quality was associated with the presence of redemption sequences and self-event connections within time points, but not longitudinally.

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With a little help from my friends? Perceived friendship quality and narrative identity in adolescence

Increasing immigration around the world has affected the lives of children and adolescents. The ability to cope with the stress of migration and adaptation to a new culture likely is an important protective factor for optimal identity development under these conditions. The present study examined the role of coping strategies in interpersonal identity development among immigrant adolescents. The sample consisted of 93 (43% females) first-generation immigrant adolescents who migrated to Turkey due to war in their home countries. They have been living in the suburbs in Ankara and attending regular public schools. A two-wave longitudinal design was employed with a 4-month interval between waves. Identity development was measured using the Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale focusing on the dimensions commitment, in-depth exploration, and reconsideration of commitment in the domain of interpersonal relations. The coping strategies problem-solving, social support seeking, and avoidance were assessed with the Coping Strategies Scale. Results showed that none of the identity dimensions significantly predicted the use of specific coping strategies. However, different coping strategies predicted relative change in some identity dimensions. These results are discussed in light of previous findings on associations between identity development and coping strategies in different populations, and the difficulties associated with being an immigrant.

The role of coping strategies in interpersonal identity development of war-affected immigrant adolescents.

Associations between the identity domains of future plans and education, and the role of a major curricular internship on identity formation processes.

Theo Klimstra

Papers

Identity in adolescence: change or stability

BRIEF REPORT Come Rain or Come Shine: Individual Differences in How Weather Affects Mood

With a little help from my friends? Perceived friendship quality and narrative identity in adolescence

The role of coping strategies in interpersonal identity development of war-affected immigrant adolescents.

Associations between the identity domains of future plans and education, and the role of a major curricular internship on identity formation processes.