Code
3E002712
Duration
01 October 2012 → 31 August 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Applied psychology
- Developmental psychology and ageing
Keywords
personality development
environmental
social investment theory
genes
Five-Factor Theory
Project description
The present proposal will investigate principles of the Five-Factor-Theory (McCrae & Costa, 1996) and the Social Investment Theory (Roberts & Wood, 2006), two leading theories on normative personality development. Hence, the contribution of genes versus environmental factors (e.g., life events) will be investigated, building on a twin sample from which personality data were already collected in 1997 and in 2000.