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Can personality explain genetic influences on life events?

Journal of personality and social psychology - 1 Jan 1997

Saudino K J, Pedersen N L, Lichtenstein P, McClearn G E, Plomin R

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Previous research in the Swedish Adoption/Twin Study of Aging (SATSA) has found genetic influences on life events (R. Plomin, P. Lichtenstein, N.L. Pedersen, G.E. McClearn, & J.R. Nesselroade, 1990). The present study extends this finding by examining sex differences in genetic and environmental contributions to life events and by examining personality as a mediator of genetic influences on life events in SATSA....

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PMID: 9008381
DOI: 10.1037//0022-3514.72.1.196

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