Intelligence and Maturity: Meta-Analytic Evidence for the Incremental and Discriminant Validity of Loevinger's Measure of Ego Development

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 760-772

  Cohn, Lawrence D ^a   Westenberg, P Michiel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EGO; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PERSONALITY TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 2442548732     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.86.5.760     Document Type: Review

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