Taking time to be healthy: Predicting health behaviors with delay discounting and time perspective

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 202-207

  Daugherty, James R ^a   Brase, Gary L ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Five personality; Consideration of Future Consequences; Delay discounting; Health behaviors; Money choice questionnaire; Sociosexual orientation inventory; Time perspective; Zimbardo time perspective inventory

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650988060     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.10.007     Document Type: Article

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