Correlated change of Big Five personality traits across the lifespan: A search for determinants

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 768-777

  Klimstra, Theo A ^a   Bleidorn, Wiebke ^a   Asendorpf, Jens B ^b   van Aken, Marcel A G ^c   Denissen, Jaap J A ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Big Five; Correlated change; Five factor model of personality; Personality development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883315192     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2013.08.004     Document Type: Article

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