Personality Factors and Adult Attachment Affecting Job Mobility

International Journal of Selection and Assessment

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 253-264

  Van Vianen, Annelies E M ^a   Feij, Jan A ^b   Krausz, Moshe ^c   Taris, Ruben ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 0347604400     PISSN: 0965075X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0965-075X.2003.00249.x     Document Type: Article

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