Resilient, overcontrolled, and undercontrolled personality prototypes in childhood: Replicability, predictive power, and the trait-type issue

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 815-832

  Asendorpf, Jens B ^a   Van Aken, Marcel A G ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0033212630     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.77.4.815     Document Type: Article

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