Personality and students' academic achievement: Interactive effects of conscientiousness and agreeableness on students' performance in principles of economics

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 381-388

  Chowdhury, Mohammed S ^a,b   Amin, Mohammed N ^b  

^a New York   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agreeableness; Conscientiousness; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646707795     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2006.34.4.381     Document Type: Article

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