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Ganiban, Jody M.; Chou, Cindi; Haddad, Suzanne; Lichtenstein, Paul; Reiss, David; Spotts, Erica L.; Neiderhiser, Jenae M. – European Journal of Developmental Science, 2009
The current study used factor analysis to assess the degree to which personality characteristics derived from different theories signify the same latent personality constructs, and biometric modeling to understand the genetic and environmental structure of these constructs. Participants were drawn from the Twin and Offspring Study in Sweden…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Genetics, Behavior Development, Twins
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Wahlsten, Douglas – European Journal of Developmental Science, 2007
Near the end of his illustrious career, Gottlieb lamented the continued dominance of heritability analysis in human psychology and the difficulties in winning support for the developmental point of view. Recent, spectacular progress in molecular genetic neuroscience and the genetic study of behavior, however, is rendering heritability analysis…
Descriptors: Genetics, Environmental Influences, Behavior Development, Behavior Theories