Can Personality Explain Genetic Influences on Life Events?

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 196-206

  Saudino, Kimberly J ^c   McClearn, G E ^d   Pedersen, Nancy L ^a   Lichtenstein, Paul ^a   Plomin, Robert ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWEDEN; TWINS;

ADULT; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY; PHENOTYPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; SWEDEN; TWINS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0030639875     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.72.1.196     Document Type: Article

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