Exploring the impact of personality on performance: How time-on-task moderates the mediation by self-efficacy

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 823-828

  Tabak, Filiz ^a   Nguyen, Nhung ^a   Basuray, Tom ^a   Darrow, William ^a  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conscientiousness; Emotional stability; Extraversion; Performance; Self efficacy; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849113812     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.06.027     Document Type: Article

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