The effects of getting a new teacher on the consistency of personality

In the present research, we examined the effect of getting a new teacher on consistency in students' personality measures, including trait and social cognitive constructs.To test the effect of this kind of situational transition, we analyzed two large longitudinal samples (N = 5,628; N = 2,458) with quasi-experimental study designs. We used two consistency measures (i.e., rank-order clations and changes in variance over time) to compare students...