YOU ARE A DIFFERENT PERSON AT 14 AND 77

For those struggling to shake the memories of some awkward teenage years, take heart, because it looks like your body isn't the only thing to undergo massive changes through adulthood - your personality can shift dramatically too.
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Reports Revealed that our personality changes so much from youth to old age, on paper, you might look like a completely different person from when you were 14 and 77 years old.
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh in the UK analysed the results from a 1947 study that recruited 1,208 teenagers in Scotland aged 14, and got their teachers to assess their personality.
The teachers were asked to fill out six different questionnaires that assessed the students on six traits: self-confidence, perseverance, stability of moods, conscientiousness, originality, and desire to excel.
These results were then condensed into an overall rating for a single underlying trait called "denoted dependability" - a trait comparable to conscientiousness.
Now, more than six decades later, the University of Edinburgh team managed to contact 635 of the original students, and 174 agreed to have their personalities tested once more.
At an average of 76.7 years old, the group was asked to rate themselves on the six personality traits, and nominate a close friend or family member to do the same.
This time, the group completed seven personality scales and tests, and had their mental health assessed. The results were once again condensed into a single "dependability" score.
When the researchers compared the results at 77 years to those at 14 years, they found no notable correlation.
"[T]here were no positive correlations strong enough to achieve significance between adolescent and older-age characteristic ratings or dependability,"
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Source:science alert