The personality structure of toddlers and preschool children as perceived by their kindergarten teachers;Osebnostna struktura malčkov in predšolskih otrok kot jo zaznavajo njihove vzgojiteljice

Psiholoska Obzorja

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 7-26

  Zupancic, Maja ^a   Kavcic, Tina ^a   Fekonja, Urska ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Five factor model; Kindergarten teachers; Personality traits; Pre school children; Toddlers

Indexed keywords

EID: 4243745658     PISSN: 13181874     EISSN: 23505141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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