Who worries and who is happy? Explaining individual differences in worries and satisfaction by personality

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1626-1634

  Rammstedt, Beatrice ^a  

^a GESIS LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Big Five; Life satisfaction; Personality; Worries

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547200933     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.04.031     Document Type: Article

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