Does self-esteem account for the higher-order factors of the Big Five?

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 921-922

  Erdle, Stephen ^a   Gosling, Samuel D ^b   Potter, Jeff ^c  

^a HURON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Big Five; Personality; Plasticity; Self esteem; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349086078     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2009.04.012     Document Type: Article

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