The General Factor of Personality (GFP) and parental support: Testing a prediction from Life History Theory

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 537-546

  Van der Linden, Dimitri ^a   Figueredo, Aurelio J ^b   de Leeuw, Rebecca N H ^c   Scholte, Ron H J ^c   Engels, Rutger C M E ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Big Five; General Factor of Personality; Life History Theory; Parental support

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865293625     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2012.01.007     Document Type: Article

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