Personality types and coping

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 367-378

  Vollrath, Margarete ^a   Torgersen, Svenn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Affects; Conscientiousness; Coping; Extraversion; Neuroticism; Personality; Stress; Typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034239590     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(99)00199-3     Document Type: Article

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