Relationships between religiosity, spirituality, and personality: A multivariate analysis

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 703-708

  Henningsgaard, Jude M ^a   Arnau, Randolph C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Five; Canonical correlation; Religiosity; Spirituality

Indexed keywords

EID: 53249151595     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.07.004     Document Type: Article

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