Mainly Openness: The relationship between the Big Five personality traits and learning approaches

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 524-529

  Chamorro Premuzic, Tomas ^a   Furnham, Adrian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big Five; Learning approaches; Openness; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350014982     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2009.06.004     Document Type: Article

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