In the last months, I supervised two super-talented research interns (unfortunately Bluesky-less). They were interested in how self-esteem develops after negative events and examined this question in a longitudinal study over 6 months.

You can find their results here:

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Finally, we found preliminary evidence that also the perception of specific event types differs across the lifespan

Furthermore, controlling for event type, the perception of major life events differed across age.

We found that there are expectable differences across age groups regarding the reported event types and domains

In a mini meta-analysis (7 studies, 26 effect sizes), we found initial evidence that interventions that aim to facilitate VPC are successful in doing so: d = 0.22.

We compared effect sizes on volitional personality change with normative personality changes and psychotherapy:

In a frist step, we tried to integrate contemporary theories on volitional personality change:

Argh, this was not how the images were supposed to look like. Another try:

Integrating data from 8 panel studies, we found several replicable moderators of event-related personality changes. However, each moderator explained only a small proportion of the variance of event-related changes.

The review revealved that only age and gender have frequently been considered as moderators of event-related personality changes.

Findings partly replicated the results of the meta-analysis but also differed in some important regards. Here an overview of which findings replicated (dark shading = finding emerged in our CDA and existing MA):