The dark side of conscientiousness: Conscientious people experience greater drops in life satisfaction following unemployment

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 535-539

  Boyce, Christopher J ^a   Wood, Alex M ^b   Brown, Gordon D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conscientiousness; Subjective well being; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955175979     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2010.05.001     Document Type: Article

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