Broad versus narrow traits: Conscientiousness and honesty-humility as predictors of academic criteria

European Journal of Personality

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 336-348

  de Vries, Anita ^a   de Vries, Reinout E ^a   Born, Marise Ph ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bandwidth fidelity; Conscientiousness; Counterproductive academic behaviour; Grade point average; Honesty Humility; Integrity

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053129865     PISSN: 08902070     EISSN: 10990984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/per.795     Document Type: Article

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