Sensation seeking in the community: Sex, age and sociodemographic comparisons on a representative German population sample

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1261-1271

  Roth, Marcus ^a   Schumacher, Jörg ^b   Brähler, Elmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age and sex differences; Representative sample; Sensation seeking; Sociodemographic comparisons

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644587136     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2005.05.003     Document Type: Article

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