Digital coaching increased the organization and productiveness facets of conscientiousness but not responsibility, with no observer-reported facet changes¶
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q3 i2 Coaching increased facets of organization (post-test/follow-up d = 0.42/0.49) and productiveness (d = 0.64/0.93) but not responsibility (d = −0.09/0.19; p = 0.920/0.148). → Melanie Turner 2025
q3 i? No significant changes in conscientiousness facets were found when observer-report data were analyzed. → Melanie Turner 2025
Evidence¶
Melanie Turner 2025¶
Melanie Turner, Flaviu A. Hodis. (2025). Strengthening Conscientiousness by Means of Interventions: A Systematic Review. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-025-10016-4
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The review's summary of Olaru et al. (2024), an RCT with active control of 552 participants from Stieger et al. (2021) who wanted to increase their emotional stability, extraversion, or conscientiousness; 10-week online digital coaching. The facet effects are for the subset who wanted to improve conscientiousness, whose size the review does not give; the review reports them and the null observer-report result as printed.
"coaching increased the facets for organization (post-test/follow-up: d = 0.42/0.49) and productiveness (post-test/follow-up: d = 0.64/0.93), but not responsibility (post-test/follow-up: d = − 0.09/0.19; p = 0.920/0.148). No significant changes in the facets of conscientiousness were found when observer-report data were analyzed"
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Personality Traits — outcome: instruction changes it
Related Claims¶
- Behavior activation interventions show a dose-response pattern — completing more conscientiousness challenges produced larger increases — but one behavior activation trial found no significant change — related
- Most recent interventions to strengthen conscientiousness significantly increased it at the trait, facet, or state level, with small-to-moderate effect sizes — a broader claim this one bears on
- Digital coaching significantly increased trait conscientiousness, with effects stable one year after the intervention ended — related
- Intervention gains in conscientiousness were generally maintained at follow-up, but mediation was never tested and only one intervention examined moderation — a broader claim this one bears on
- One in-person coaching intervention produced a small significant reduction in conscientiousness while the control group showed no change — reports the opposite
- Digital VPC interventions produce goal-consistent personality changes, with self-reported effects in the large range and smaller observer-reported effects — related
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Digital coaching increased the organization and productiveness facets of conscientiousness but not responsibility, with no observer-reported facet changes |
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Digital coaching increased the organization and productiveness facets of conscientiousness but not responsibility, with no observer-reported facet changes |
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