Trait Means and Desirabilities as Artifactual and Real Sources of Differential Stability of Personality Traits

Journal of Personality

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 665-701

  Wood, Dustin ^a   Wortman, Jessica ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CREATIVITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; CREATIVENESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861199914     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2011.00740.x     Document Type: Article

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