Who wants to take an intelligence test? Personality and achievement motivation in the context of ability testing

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 723-728

  Freund, Philipp Alexander ^a   Holling, Heinz ^b  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Achievement motivation; BIG 5; Intelligence test; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551614589     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.12.025     Document Type: Article

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