Associations among polychronicity, goal orientation, and error orientation

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 288-298

  Schell, Kraig L ^a   Conte, Jeffrey M ^b  

^a ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Error orientation; Goal orientation; Nomological network; Polychronicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 35248867334     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.08.009     Document Type: Article

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