Schnitker and Emmons (2007) found evidence for an inverse relationship between patience and negative affect and between patience and depression, but a positive relationship between patience and self-reports of certain negative health outcomes, including headaches, acne, and ulcers.
They found that trait stability increased from a correlation .31 in childhood to .54 during the college years, to .64 at age 30, and then it reached a plateau around .74 between the from age 50 until the age of 70. What we can infer from these results is that personality seems to stabilize with increasing age.
HOUSING AND STABILITY. â 1  Transition Age Youth. â 2  Transition Age Youth. 3  is the label used for youth who are in transition from state custody or foster care to independent adulthood. The term is generally applied to former foster yout aged 18-24 years old.