Sources of Cumulative Continuity in Personality: A Longitudinal Multiple-Rater Twin Study

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 995-1008

  Kandler, Christian ^a   Bleidorn, Wiebke ^a   Riemann, Rainer ^a   Spinath, Frank M ^b   Thiel, Wolfgang ^a   Angleitner, Alois ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Continuity; Environment; Genetics; Personality; Twin study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS; TWINS; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOMETRICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954788052     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019558     Document Type: Article

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