Selected Recent Publications: Personality Change
Helson, R., & Soto, C.J. (2005). Up and down in middle age: Monotonic and non-monotonic change in roles and personality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 194-204.
Helson, R., Kwan, V.S.Y., John, O.J., & Jones, C.J. (2002). The growing evidence for personality change in adulthood: Findings from research with inventories. Journal of Research in Personality, 36, 287-306.
Paris, R., & Helson, R. (2002). Early mothering experience and personality change. Journal of Family Psychology, 16, 172-185.
Roberts, B.W., Helson, R., & Klohnen, E.C. (2002). Personality development and growth in women across 30 years: Three perspectives. Journal of Personality, 70, 79-102.
Helson, R., Jones, C.J., & Kwan, V.S.Y. (2002). Personality change over 40 years of adulthood: HLM analyses of two longitudinal samples. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 752-766.
Helson, R. & Kwan, V.S.V. (2000). Personality change in adulthood: The big picture and processes in one longitudinal study. In S.E. Hampton (ed.), Advances in personality psychology, Vol 1. (77-106). Hove, England: Psychology Press.
Roberts, B.W. & Chapman, C.N. (2000). Role quality and changes in dispositional well-being: A longitudinal study using growth modeling. Journal of Research in Personality, 34, 26-41.