Playfulness: Its relationship with instrumental and expressive traits

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 749-760

  Bozionelos, Nikos ^a   Bozionelos, Giorgos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adult playfulness scale; Adults; Expressiveness; Instrumentality; Playfulness; Sex

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348224118     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(98)00207-4     Document Type: Article

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