Personality traits below facets: The consensual validity, longitudinal stability, heritability, and utility of personality nuances

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 474-490

  Mõttus, René ^a   Kandler, Christian ^b   Bleidorn, Wiebke ^c   Riemann, Rainer ^b   McCrae, Robert R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Heritability; Nuances; Personality hierarchy; Prediction; Stability

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; CASE REPORT; CONSENSUAL VALIDITY; FEMALE; GENDER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PSYCINFO; SELF REPORT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; GENETICS; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; TWINS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84964556559     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/pspp0000100     Document Type: Article

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