Personality Characteristics of Business Majors as Defined by the Big Five and Narrow Personality Traits

Journal of Education for Business

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 200-205

  Lounsbury, John W ^a   Smith, Ryan M ^b   Levy, Jacob J ^a   Leong, Frederick T ^c   Gibson, Lucy W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Resource Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Five model; business majors; Holland's theory; life satisfaction; narrow personality traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951625892     PISSN: 08832323     EISSN: 19403356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/JOEB.84.4.200-205     Document Type: Article

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