Approach and Avoidance Temperament as Basic Dimensions of Personality

Journal of Personality

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 865-906

  Elliot, Andrew J ^a   Thrash, Todd M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOMETRY; TEMPERAMENT;

ADULT; EMOTIONS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 77954021666     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2010.00636.x     Document Type: Article

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