Social relationships, transitions, and personality development across the life span

Handbook of Personality Development

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 445-466

  Lang, Frieder R ^a   Reschke, Franziska S ^a   Neyer, Franz J ^b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315805610-31     Document Type: Chapter

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