During this project we will study the development of non-cognitive skills across the life-course. Non-cognitive skills encompass a diverse range of skills including: motivation, perseverance, emotional intelligence, resilience, and self-regulation. We will investigate the genetic architecture of these skills, and particularly how these skills develop over time. ALSPAC has existing measures of non-cognitive skills measured repeatedly across childhood. Further measures are being collected in the Focus @24/25 YP clinic as part of Marcus Munafo's research. During this project we would like to collect further measures of non-cognitive skills via a questionnaire during 2016 or 2017. We will collect comparable measures to other major cohort studies, including the English Longitudinal Study of Aging and The Health and Retirement Study in the US, which will enable the data to be used in a large GWAS consortia. As part of the project comparable data will be collected in TEDS.