Heritabilities of Common and Measure-Specific Components of the Big Five Personality Factors

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 431-453

  Loehlin, John C ^a   McCrae, Robert R ^a   Costa Jr , Paul T ^a   John, Oliver P ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Key Words: Big Five; heredity; environment; twins; model fitting; sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001411570     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jrpe.1998.2225     Document Type: Article

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