Personality Development Collaborative

SHARE DATA

Do you have data that could be used to advance our understanding of personality development?

Study Eligibility

The Process

Benefits

Determine Study Eligibility

  • Study must include a validated measure of personality, temperament, motivation, self-esteem, or some other personality trait (broadly defined).
  • Study must include at least two waves of personality data. The total timespan across all waves must be at least 2 years.

If you have (or know of) a study that meets these criteria, please contact:

personalitycollaborative@gmail.com

The Process

If your study meets the eligibility criteria, here is the process for adding it to the Personality Development Collaborative (PDC).

STEP 1: EMAIL US

  • Please email us (personalitycollaborative@gmail.com) to let us know you are interested.

STEP 2: COLLECT INFORMATION

  • After we receive your email, we will send you a brief survey to obtain more information about your study. If you prefer, you can send us your codebook and we will extract the information we need.

STEP 3: REVIEW AND CONFIRM

  • Using the information you provided in Step 2, we will create a Project Page for your study on the PDC. You will be asked to review and confirm the accuracy of the Project Page before it is published.

STEP 4: ANNUAL UPDATES

  • If your study is ongoing, the PDC administrative team will send out annual inquiries asking you to update the information on your Project Page.

Benefits

Having your study hosted on the Personality Development Collaborative has a number of benefits, both to you (as a PI) and to the broader field.

Customizable
Experience

You choose how much (or how little) information is included on your Project Page, whether to post any links to codebooks/data, and who you’d like to be the point-of-contact for interested collaborators. If you notice a problem or see something that is missing from your Project Page, let us know and we will quickly address the issue.

Increases Collaboration + Maximizes Use of Data

Having your study hosted on the Personality Development Collaborative will maximize use of your data by connecting you with new collaborators. Many PIs who run large longitudinal studies know that the data available could sustain decades of research and hundreds of publications, if only there were enough researchers working on the project. Often, these large datasets contain thousands of variables, some of which may have yet to be touched.

Promotes Replication + Generalizability

Replicating longitudinal research is hard. The data are expensive, time-consuming, and difficult to collect and manage, which makes the Personality Development Collaborative all the more important. By bringing together all of the existing longitudinal studies of personality development, we are able to help researchers replicate their own (or other’s) longitudinal work and examine the generalizability of their findings across samples that vary in gender, race/ethnicity, nationality, socioeconomic status, and so on.

Accelerates Scientific Progress

By conducting rigorous and collaborative science, we accelerate our scientific understanding of personality development across the life course. Further, by knowing which longitudinal datasets exist, we can better identify questions that cannot be answered by existing studies. This information can be used in grant proposals to justify funding for new longitudinal studies that address these questions.

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