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A systematic review of volitional personality change research

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2024
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Haehner, P., Wright, A. J., & Bleidorn, W. (2024). A systematic review of volitional personality change research. Communications Psychology, 2, 115. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00167-5

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Personality traits predict a broad range of life outcomes, including relationship success, educational attainment, and health. As many people have the desire to change some aspects of their personality, volitional personality change (VPC) – self-directed trait changes in the direction of personal change goals – has recently gained increasing attention. This preregistered review aimed to provide an integrative overview of the emerging literature on VPC (https://osf.io/ns79m). Based on a systematic literature search on PsycINFO (October

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English

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2024-11-30

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2731-9121

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The authors received no specific funding to conduct this work but we thank the University of Zurich for supporting the open access publication.

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19 since deposited on 2024-12-12
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18 in Web of Science Acq. date: 2026-04-03

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Haehner, P., Wright, A. J., & Bleidorn, W. (2024). A systematic review of volitional personality change research. Communications Psychology, 2, 115. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00167-5

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