Heritability of the Big Five Personality Dimensions and Their Facets: A Twin Study

Journal of Personality

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 577-592

  Jang, Kerry L ^a   Livesley, W John ^a   Vernon, Philip A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0030239719     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1996.tb00522.x     Document Type: Article

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