Understanding the Experience of Time Scarcity: Linking consumer time-personality and marketplace behavior

Time and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 349-370

  Kaufman Scarborough, Carol ^a   Lindquist, Jay D ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Time perception; Time scarcity; Time style; Time use; Time personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141566617     PISSN: 0961463X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961463X030122011     Document Type: Article

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