Personality-Cognition Relations Across Adulthood

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 303-310

  Soubelet, Andrea ^a   Salthouse, Timothy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Big Five; Cognition; Structural invariance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952601836     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021816     Document Type: Article

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