Personality and career success: Concurrent and longitudinal relations

European Journal of Personality

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 71-84

  Sutin, Angelina R ^a   Costa Jr , Paul T ^a   Miech, Richard ^b   Eaton, William W ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Five factor model; Income; Job satisfaction; Occupations; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 62749121155     PISSN: 08902070     EISSN: 10990984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/per.704     Document Type: Article

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