Gender differences in the Big Five personality development: A longitudinal investigation from late adolescence to emerging adulthood

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 740-746

  Vecchione, Michele ^a   Alessandri, Guido ^a   Barbaranelli, Claudio ^a   Caprara, Gianvittorio ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Big Five; Development; Latent Growth Curve; Personality traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864298149     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.05.033     Document Type: Article

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