Affective personality in relation to general personality, self-reported stress, coping, and optimism

Individual Differences Research

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 26-37

  Bood, Sven Åke ^a   Archer, Trevor ^b   Norlander, Torsten ^a  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Affective personality; Negative affect; Positive affect; Stress; Traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 21644485372     PISSN: 1541745X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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