General mental ability, narrower cognitive abilities, and job performance: The perspective of the nested-factors model of cognitive abilities

Personnel Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 595-640

  Lang, Jonas W B ^a   Kersting, Martin ^b   Hülsheger, Ute R ^a   Lang, Jessica ^c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Federal University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration   (Netherlands)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 77955582224     PISSN: 00315826     EISSN: 17446570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-6570.2010.01182.x     Document Type: Article

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