The Time Styles Scale: A review of developments and replications over 15 years

Time & Society

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 333-366

  Usunier, Jean Claude ^a   Valette Florence, Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

consumer behaviour; psychometric scale; time orientations

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547891522     PISSN: 0961463X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961463X07080272     Document Type: Article

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