Personality in childhood - A longitudinal behavior genetic approach

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 411-416

  Spengler, Marion ^a   Gottschling, Juliana ^a   Spinath, Frank M ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Childhood; Five Factor Model; Heritability; Longitudinal; Personality; Self perception; Twin study CoSMoS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862317028     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.01.019     Document Type: Review

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