Cross-cultural differences in drivers' self-assessments of their perceptual-motor and safety skills: Australians and finns

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 539-550

  Lajunen, Timo ^a   Corry, Angela ^b   Summala, Heikki ^b   Hartley, Laurence ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Australians; Cross cultural reliability and validity; Driver; Driving skill inventory; Finns; Perceptual motorskills; Personality; Safety skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032039726     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(97)00202-X     Document Type: Article

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