Predictive validity of personality types versus personality dimensions from early childhood to adulthood: Implications for the distinction between core and surface traits

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 486-513

  Asendorpf, Jens B ^a,b   Denissen, Jaap J A ^a,b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Institute for Psychologie   (Germany)

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EID: 33750993166     PISSN: 0272930X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/mpq.2006.0022     Document Type: Article

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