Adolescents' music preferences and personality characteristics

European Journal of Personality

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 109-130

  Delsing, Marc J M H ^a   Ter Bogt, Tom F M ^a   Engels, Rutger C M E ^b   Meeus, Wim H J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Big five personality characteristics; Dutch adolesecents; Latent growth curve modeling; Music preferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 51349165420     PISSN: 08902070     EISSN: 10990984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/per.665     Document Type: Article

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