Personality and health - So what?

Psychologist

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 594-597

  Hagger Johnson, Gareth E ^a   Whiteman, Martha C Pollard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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