Adolescent Personality Development and Identity Formation

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 80-84

  Klimstra, Theo ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Identity formation; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877682165     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12017     Document Type: Article

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