A second look at Carver and White's (1994) BIS/BAS scales

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 785-800

  Heubeck, Bernd G ^a   Wilkinson, Ross B ^a   Cologon, John ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

BAS; BIS; Extraversion; Negative and positive emotionality; Neuroticism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032186488     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(98)00124-X     Document Type: Article

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