Personality-Situation Transactions from Adolescence to Old Age

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 782-799

  Wrzus, Cornelia ^a   Wagner, Gert G ^b,c   Riediger, Michaela ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^c DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Big Five; Experience sampling in daily life; Life span development; Multilevel modeling; Personality situation transactions

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ECOLOGICAL MOMENTARY ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ECOLOGICAL MOMENTARY ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84936973063     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/pspp0000054     Document Type: Article

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