Long-Term Correlated Change Between Personality Traits and Perceived Social Support in Middle Adulthood

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 420-432

  Allemand, Mathias ^a   Schaffhuser, Kathrin ^a   Martin, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

latent change models; long term correlated change; middle adulthood; personality traits; social support

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TESTS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84922749024     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167215569492     Document Type: Article

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