Relations between chronic regulatory focus and future time perspective: Results of a cross-lagged structural equation model

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1255-1260

  Zacher, Hannes ^a   De Lange, Annet H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chronic regulatory focus; Cross lagged panel; Future time perspective

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953161577     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.02.020     Document Type: Article

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