The age of anxiety? birth cohort change in anxiety and Neuroticism, 1952-1993

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1007-1021

  Twenge, Jean M ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; META ANALYSIS; NEUROSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; SOCIAL ALIENATION; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034567369     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.79.6.1007     Document Type: Article

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