Self-esteem in early and late adolescence predicts dispositional optimism-pessimism in adulthood: A 21-year longitudinal study

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 511-521

  Heinonen, Kati ^a   Räikkönen, Katri ^a   Keltikangas Järvinen, Liisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Adulthood; Change; Dispositional optimism pessimism; Longitudinal; Self esteem

Indexed keywords

EID: 21844447827     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2005.01.026     Document Type: Article

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