Heritability of facet-level traits in a cross-cultural twin sample: Support for a hierarchical model of personality

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1556-1565

  Jang, Kerry L ^a   McCrae, Robert R ^b   Livesley, W John ^a   Angleitner, Alois ^c   Riemann, Rainer ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETICS; GERMANY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CANADA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; PERSONALITY; TWINS;

EID: 0032085072     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.74.6.1556     Document Type: Article

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