Delay of Gratification, Psychopathology, and Personality: Is Low Self-Control Specific to Externalizing Problems?

Journal of Personality

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 107-129

  Krueger, Robert F ^a   Caspi, Avshalom ^a   Moffitt, Terrie E ^a   White, Jennifer ^a   Stouthamer Loeber, Magda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CONTROL; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTIVATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTIVATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; Q-SORT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 0030094288     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1996.tb00816.x     Document Type: Article

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