Sex, financial hardship and locus of control: An empirical study of attitudes towards money among Singaporean Chinese

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 411-429

  Lim, Vivien K G ^a   Teo, Thompson S H ^a   Loo, Geok Leng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Financial hardship; Gender; Locus of control; Money attitudes; Working adults

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037295003     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00063-6     Document Type: Article

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