The relationships between traits, personal values, topic involvement, and topic sensitivity in a mail survey context

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-73

  Wijnen, Katrien ^a   Vermeir, Iris ^a,b   Van Kenhove, Patrick ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Department of Business Administration and Management ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Mail survey; Topic involvement; Topic sensitivity; Traits; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750900633     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.06.021     Document Type: Article

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