The General Factor of Psychosocial Development and its relation to the General Factor of Personality and Life History strategy

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 202-206

  Dunkel, Curtis S ^a   Kim, Jwa K ^b   Papini, Dennis R ^b  

^a WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

General Factor of Personality; Life History theory; Psychosocial development

Indexed keywords

EID: 81955164094     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.10.016     Document Type: Article

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