Personality profiles among targets and nontargets of workplace bullying

European Psychologist

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 231-237

  Lind, Karina ^b   Glas, Lars ^a   Pallesen, Ståle ^a   Einarsen, Ståle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Five factor model of personality; Personality; Workplace bullying

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349141392     PISSN: 10169040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1016-9040.14.3.231     Document Type: Article

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