Patterns of personality change across the life span

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 57-65

  Jones, Constance J ^a   Meredith, William ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASSERTIVENESS; EXTRAVERSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; RELIABILITY; SATISFACTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ASSERTIVENESS; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD GUIDANCE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTELLIGENCE; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; Q-SORT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0029897926     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.11.1.57     Document Type: Article

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