Using individual dynamics to personalise interventions
Personality research increasingly examines how experience and behaviour fluctuate across situations and how people differ in these dynamics. In a paper forthcoming in American Psychologist, a team led by JICE member Dr. Niclas Kuper proposes using these individual dynamics for interventions that facilitate volitional personality change. Such interventions are gaining importance, but their effects are often small and heterogeneous. The authors describe three ways to leverage dynamics to make interventions more effective: First, dynamics can themselves be the target of an intervention, for example when someone wants to learn to react less strongly to stress. Second, interventions can be tailored to the individual, for instance by promoting activities from which that particular person benefits most. Third, interventions can be delivered at the right moment, such as a short relaxation exercise before situations that a person typically finds stressful.
Kuper N, Juchem C, Allemand M, Kroencke L, Olaru G, Stieger M, Wrzus C, Haehner P (in press): Leveraging personality dynamics for volitional personality change interventions. American Psychologist. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/zu6v9_v2/
