Assertive toddler, self-efficacious adult: Child temperament predicts personality over forty years

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2127-2136

  Blatny, Marek ^a   Jelinek, Martin ^a   Osecka, Terezie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Adult personality; Early child temperament; Five factor theory; Life span development; Personality stability and change; Self

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548849479     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.06.024     Document Type: Article

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