Self-Regulation and the Five-Factor Model of Personality Traits

Handbook of Personality and Self-Regulation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 145-168

  Mccrae, Robert R ^a   Löckenhoff, Corinna E ^b  

^a Cornell University ^*

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Conscientiousness and techniques of self control; FFM implications for self regulation and correlational approaches; FFT and process models of self regulation; Five Factor Theory (FFT) endogenous basic tendencies rooted in biological bases and substantially heritable; Five factor theory personality system; Neuroticism (N), Extraversion (E), Openness to experience (O), Agreeableness (A), and Conscientiousness (C); Self regulation and five factor model of personality traits; self regulation and self control different traits, processes and functions; Specific kind of self regulation designated as self control; Trait psychology for self control and its failures

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886959746     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444318111.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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