Little more than personality: Dispositional determinants of test anxiety (the Big Five, core self-evaluations, and self-assessed intelligence)

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 258-263

  Chamorro Premuzic, Tomas ^a   Ahmetoglu, Gorkan ^a   Furnham, Adrian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big Five; Core self evaluations; Personality; Self assessed intelligence; Test anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 42249090163     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2007.09.002     Document Type: Article

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