The Personal Expansion Questionnaire: Measuring one's tendency to expand through novelty and augmentation

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 89-94

  Gordon, Cameron L ^a   Luo, Shanhong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual strengths; Measurement; Relationship satisfaction; Self expansion

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955613963     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.03.015     Document Type: Article

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