Is the genetic structure of human personality universal? A cross-cultural twin study from North America, Europe, and Asia

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 987-998

  Yamagata, Shinji ^a,h   Suzuki, Atsunobu ^a,h   Ando, Juko ^b   Ono, Yutaka ^b   Kijima, Nobuhiko ^b   Yoshimura, Kimio ^c   Ostendorf, Fritz ^d   Angleitner, Alois ^d   Riemann, Rainer ^e   Spinath, Frank M ^f   Livesley, W John ^g   Jang, Kerry L ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c National Cancer Center   (Slovakia)

^d BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^f SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^h JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behavioral genetics; Five factor model; Revised NEO Personality Inventory; Twin study; Universality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GENETICS; GERMANY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; TWINS;

CANADA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ENVIRONMENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; GERMANY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHENOTYPE; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 33746255593     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.90.6.987     Document Type: Article

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