Continuing change in neuroticism during adulthood - Structural modelling of a 16-year, 5-wave community study

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 461-478

  Ormel, Johan ^a,b   Rijsdijk, Frühling V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Change; Continuity; Development; Neuroticism; Personality; Structural equation modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034148310     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(99)00112-9     Document Type: Article

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