Personality and negative expectancies: Trait structure of the Beck Hopelessness Scale

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 913-921

  Velting, Drew M ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive; Conscientiousness; Depression; Extraversion; Hopelessness; Neuroticism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001537070     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(98)00194-9     Document Type: Article

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