Season of birth and personality in healthy young adults

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 452, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 185-188

  Tonetti, Lorenzo ^a   Fabbri, Marco ^a   Natale, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Big Five Observer; Circadian typology; Gender differences; Personality; Season of birth

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SELF REPORT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARTURITION; PERSONALITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEASONS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60349127081     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.01.055     Document Type: Article

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