The relationship between personality and motivation: Is there a general factor of motivation?

Individual Differences Research

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 115-125

  Batey, Mark ^a   Booth, Tom ^a   Furnham, Adrian ^b   Lipman, Hannah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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