@article{jmmss 801, author = {Aurelio José Figueredo, Tomás Cabeza de Baca, Candace Jasmine Black}, title = {No matter Where You Go, There You Are: The Genetic Foundations of Temporal Stability}, volume = {5}, year = {2014}, url = {http://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jmmss/article/id/801/}, issue = {2}, doi = {10.2458/v5i2.18477}, abstract = {<p>We present empirical tests of the stability of individual differences over the lifespan using a novel methodological technique to combine behavior-genetic data from twin dyads with longitudinal measures of life history-related traits (including health and personality) from non-twin samples. Using data from The Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) Longitudinal Survey, we constructed a series of “hybrid” models that permitted the estimation of both temporal stability parameters and behavior-genetic variance components to determine the contributions of genetic and environmental influences on individual differences. Our results indicate that changes in a higher-order factor of life history strategy (Super-K, composed of the K-Factor, Covitality, and Personality) over the study period were very small in magnitude and that this temporal stability is under a considerable degree of shared genetic influence and a substantial degree of non-shared environmental influence, but a statistically non-significant degree of shared environmental influence. Implications and future directions are discussed.</p>}, month = {2}, pages = {76-106}, keywords = {life history theory,evolutionary psychology,temporal stability,MIDUS,behavioral genetics,personality,individual differences}, issn = {2159-7855}, publisher={University of Arizona Libraries}, journal = {Journal of Methods and Measurement in the Social Sciences} }