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.
â¢ Designed for ages: 18-65+. â¢ 5 validity indices; 15 personality scales; 10 clinical syndrome scales. â¢ Designed to assess syndrome in context with personality style/disorder. â¢ Base Rate scores rather than T-scores; anchored to prevalence data for a. particular disorder; no assumption of normal curve.