Five-Factor Model Personality Traits and the Retirement Transition: Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Associations

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 722-728

  Löckenhoff, Corinna E ^a   Terracciano, Antonio ^a   Costa Jr , Paul T ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; five factor model; longitudinal; personality traits; retirement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYMENT; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; RETIREMENT; SATISFACTION;

AGED; AGING; ANXIETY; BALTIMORE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; RETIREMENT;

EID: 70349409336     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015121     Document Type: Article

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