Creative personality versus Chinese personality: How distinctive are these two personality factors?

Psychologia

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 277-285

  Hui, Anna ^a   Rudowicz, Elisabeth ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese personality; Creative personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031329777     PISSN: 00332852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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