Music Preferences, Personality Style, and Developmental Issues of Adolescents

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 205-213

  Schwartz, Kelly D ^a   Fouts, Gregory T ^b  

^a Ambrose Seminary of Ambrose University College   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescent development; Music; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037215857     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022547520656     Document Type: Article

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