Who takes health risks? A probe into eight personality types

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1185-1197

  Vollrath, Margarete ^a   Torgersen, Svenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Alcohol consumption; Conscientiousness; Extraversion; Neuroticism; Personality; Risky health behaviour; Sexual behaviour; Smoking; Typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036222428     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(01)00080-0     Document Type: Article

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