Demographic variables and perssonality: The effects of gender, age, education, and ethnic/racial status on self-descriptions of personality attributes

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 393-403

  Goldberg, Lewis R ^a   Sweeney, Dennis ^d   Merenda, Peter F ^b   Hughes Jr , John Edward ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c Walter V Clarke Associates Inc   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Demographic variables; Personality; Self description

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032015347     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0191-8869(97)00110-4     Document Type: Article

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