Personality and retirement: Exploring the links between the Big Five personality traits, reasons for retirement and the experience of being retired

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 792-797

  Robinson, Oliver C ^a   Demetre, James D ^a   Corney, Roslyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big Five; Enjoyment; Five factor model; Life satisfaction; Motivations; Retirement

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949425001     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.01.014     Document Type: Article

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