The First Partnership Experience and Personality Development: A Propensity Score Matching Study in Young Adulthood

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 455-463

  Wagner, Jenny ^a,b   Becker, Michael ^c   Lüdtke, Oliver ^a   Trautwein, Ulrich ^d  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

first partnership; longitudinal data; personality development; propensity score matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926359583     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550614566092     Document Type: Article

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