Personality traits prospectively predict verbal fluency in a lifespan sample

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 994-999

  Sutin, Angelina R ^a   Terracciano, Antonio ^a   Kitner Triolo, Melissa H ^a   Uda, Manuela ^b   Schlessinger, David ^a   Zonderman, Alan B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Five factor model; Personality; Semantic fluency; Verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPEECH; VERBAL FLUENCY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CONSCIENCE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMOTIONS; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMANTICS; TEMPERAMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82955196702     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024276     Document Type: Article

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