Openness to experience and boundaries in the mind: Relationships with cultural and economic conservative beliefs

Journal of Personality

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 659-686

  Van Hiel, Alain ^a,b   Mervielde, Ivan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Dept of Developmental Psychology ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; POLITICS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; POLITICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 3142715771     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3506.2004.00276.x     Document Type: Article

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