Behavioral genetics of the higher-order factors of the Big Five

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 261-272

  Jang, Kerry L ^a   Livesley, W John ^a   Ando, Juko ^b   Yamagata, Shinji ^c   Suzuki, Atsunobu ^c   Angleitner, Alois ^d   Ostendorf, Fritz ^d   Riemann, Rainer ^e   Spinath, Frank ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^f University of Säarucken   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpha; Beta; Big Five; Heritability; Twins

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646395426     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2005.11.033     Document Type: Article

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