Do academically gifted and nongifted students differ on the Big-Five and adaptive status? Some recent data and conclusions

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 566-570

  Zeidner, Moshe ^a   Shani Zinovich, Inbal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Big Five; Giftedness; Mental health; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960406943     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.05.007     Document Type: Article

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