Personality and self-reported health: Matching predictors and criteria

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 607-620

  Wasylkiw, Louise ^a   Fekken, G Cynthia ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Health; Health behaviour; Level of measurement; Personality; Traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036722941     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(01)00175-1     Document Type: Article

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