Acceptance of personality questionnaire feedback: The role of individual difference variables and source of interpretation

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 151-156

  Fletcher, Clive ^a   Taylor, Peggy ^a   Glanfield, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0001362897     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0191-8869(95)00169-7     Document Type: Article

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