Personality Development Across the Life Span: Longitudinal Analyses With a National Sample From Germany

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 847-861

  Lucas, Richard E ^a   Donnellan, M Brent ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Five; German Socio Economic Panel Study; Personality development; Personality stability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSCIENCE; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EXTRAVERSION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COHORT STUDIES; CONSCIENCE; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053269175     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024298     Document Type: Article

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