An investigation of broad and narrow personality traits in relation to general and domain-specific life satisfaction of college students

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 707-729

  Lounsbury, John W ^a,b   Saudargas, Richard A ^a   Gibson, Lucy W ^b   Leong, Frederick T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b Assessment Resource Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Five personality traits; Campus satisfaction; Chickering; College student development; College students; Life satisfaction; Narrow personality traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 23944497168     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11162-004-4140-6     Document Type: Review

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