Examining Mechanisms of Personality Maturation: The Impact of Life Satisfaction on the Development of the Big Five Personality Traits

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 181-189

  Specht, Jule ^a   Egloff, Boris ^b   Schmukle, Stefan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Big Five personality traits; life satisfaction; longitudinal latent modeling; personality development; personality maturation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874139377     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550612448197     Document Type: Article

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