Personality determinants of political participation: The contribution of traits and self-efficacy beliefs

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 487-492

  Vecchione, Michele ^a   Caprara, Gian Vittorio ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Five Factor Model; Mediation; Political self efficacy; Social cognitive theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 58249123660     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.11.021     Document Type: Article

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