Gould are universal developmental changes in personality or conscious -
ness. But we must admit that the simple statement that personality is
stable does not begin to do justice to the full complexity of adult life.There is both stability and change in life, and a conceptual frameworkthat can accommodate both is needed. The time has come to provide amore formal account of the relations between personality traits, the self,and the life structure. We call it Five-Factor Theory .The Personal Interview 183