Fluid intelligence, personality traits and scholastic success: Empirical evidence in a sample of Italian high school students

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2095-2104

  Di Fabio, Annamaria ^a   Busoni, Lara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Big Five model; Fluid intelligence; Scholastic success

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548851155     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.06.025     Document Type: Article

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