Appetitive motivation predicts the majority of personality and an ability measure: A comparison of BAS measures and a re-evaluation of the importance of RST

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1627-1636

  Jackson, Chris J ^a   Smillie, Luke D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Appetitive motivation; Approach; BAS; EPP; Functional impuslivity; Impulsivity; RST

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842554270     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2003.06.010     Document Type: Article

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