Parental free descriptions of their infants/toddlers: Do they resemble the Five-Factor Model of personality?

Psiholoska Obzorja

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 21-41

  Zupancic, Maja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Five Factor Model; Infants; Parental descriptors; Personality; Toddlers

Indexed keywords

EID: 85117561976     PISSN: 13181874     EISSN: 23505141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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