Personality trait development at the end of life: Antecedents and correlates of mean-level trajectories.
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Summary
Growth models applied to 13-year longitudinal data obtained from now-deceased participants in the Berlin Aging Study revealed that neuroticism increases and that this increase becomes even steeper at the end of life, while more personal control was associated with higher levels of extraversion and openness.
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- article
- Published
- 2016-09-01
- Cited by
- 99
- References
- 106
- Access
- Open access
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Keywords
Psychology, Extraversion and introversion, Neuroticism, Openness to experience, Big Five personality traits
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