The personality types of Chinese dental postgraduate students

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1077-1086

  Wu, Shengjun ^a   Miao, Danmin ^a   Zhu, Xia ^a   Liang, Jie ^a   Liu, Xufeng ^a   Luo, Zhengxue ^a   Wang, Wei ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cross culture; Dental postgraduate; Education; MBTI; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 36649014651     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2007.35.8.1077     Document Type: Article

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