Delinquent behavior and the five-factor model: Hiding in the adaptive landscape?

Individual Differences Research

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 38-62

  Wiebe, Richard P ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime; Delinquency; Five factor model; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 32544436669     PISSN: 1541745X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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