Who is late and who is early? Big Five personality factors and punctuality in attending psychological experiments

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 841-848

  Back, Mitja D ^a   Schmukle, Stefan C ^a   Egloff, Boris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Big Five; Earliness; Lateness; Personality; Punctuality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748549932     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2005.11.003     Document Type: Article

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