Personality profiles of young chess players

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 901-910

  Bilalić, Merim ^a   McLeod, Peter ^a   Gobet, Fernand ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big five model; Chess; Children; Gender differences; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846391647     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.08.025     Document Type: Article

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