What Accounts for Personality Maturation in Early Adulthood?

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 245-252

  Bleidorn, Wiebke ^a,b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

behavioral genetics; Big Five; culture; early adulthood; personality development; social investment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930916628     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721414568662     Document Type: Article

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