Big-Five personality factors, obesity and 2-year weight gain in Australian adults

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 332-335

  Magee, Christopher A ^a   Heaven, Patrick C L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Big Five; Obesity; Personality; Weight gain

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955476525     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2011.02.009     Document Type: Article

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