Age Differences in Big Five Behavior Averages and Variabilities Across the Adult Life Span: Moving Beyond Retrospective, Global Summary Accounts of Personality

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 95-107

  Noftle, Erik E ^a   Fleeson, William ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult development; Personality development; Personality traits; Variability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MALE; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMOTIONS; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERAMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950288085     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018199     Document Type: Article

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