Towards an international scale of telic-paratelic dominance

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 217-227

  Gotts, G H ^a   Kerr, J H ^b   Wangeman, J F ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Paratelic dominance; Reversal theory; Telic dominance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034135024     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(99)00082-3     Document Type: Article

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