The effects of social desirability bias on applied measures of goal orientation

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1891-1902

  Tan, James A ^a   Hall, Rosalie J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STOUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

Goal orientation; Social desirability

Indexed keywords

EID: 17344367225     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2004.11.015     Document Type: Article

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