The General Factor of Personality and peer-rated social status: A rejoinder to de Vries (2011)

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 836-839

  van der Linden, Dimitri ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Big Five; General Factor of Personality; Social status

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052086271     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.07.010     Document Type: Article

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