Personality, Self-Estimated Intelligence, and Uses of Music: A Spanish Replication and Extension Using Structural Equation Modeling

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 149-155

  Chamorro Premuzic, Tomas ^a   Gomà i Freixanet, Montserrat ^b   Furnham, Adrian ^c   Muro, Anna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big Five; intelligence; personality; Spain; uses of music

Indexed keywords

EID: 71549128973     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015342     Document Type: Article

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