Positive adult personality development: Adjustment and/or growth?

European Psychologist

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 320-329

  Staudinger, Ursula M ^a   Kunzmann, Ute ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Growth; Lifespan development; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744555634     PISSN: 10169040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1016-9040.10.4.320     Document Type: Article

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