Treating personality-relationship transactions with respect: Narrow facets, advanced models, and extended time frames

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 352-368

  Mund, Marcus ^a   Neyer, Franz J ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Big Five facets; Dynamic transactionism; Latent change; Personality development; Personality relationship transaction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905504639     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0036719     Document Type: Article

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