The role of personality, culture, and economy in unintentional fatalities: An aggregated level analysis

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 519-530

  Özkan, Türker ^a   Lajunen, Timo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Culture; EPQ; Fatalities; GNP per capita; Personality; Unintentional injuries; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147129149     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.12.020     Document Type: Article

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