Labor market influences on personality scale scores among job applicants

Zeitschrift fur Personalpsychologie

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 71-84

  Ones, Deniz S ^a   Viswesvaran, Chockalingam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Job applicant; Labor market; Personality; Personnel selection; Response distortion

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247097508     PISSN: 16176391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1026/1617-6391.6.2.71     Document Type: Article

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