Personality and subjective well-being: Big five correlates and demographic variables

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1561-1569

  González Gutiérrez, José Luis ^a   Jiménez, Bernardo Moreno ^b   Hernández, Eva Garrosa ^b   Puente, Cecilia Pen̈acoba ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Big Five; Demographic variables; Personality; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 15344338561     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2004.09.015     Document Type: Article

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