Indecisiveness and Big Five personality factors: Relationship and specificity

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1023-1028

  Germeijs, Veerle ^a   Verschueren, Karine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Big Five; Career decision; Indecisiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952630117     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.01.017     Document Type: Article

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