Personality and strength-related attitude dimensions: Between and within-person relationships

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 586-596

  Britt, Thomas W ^a   Pusilo, Christine L ^a   McKibben, Eric S ^b   Kelley, Christie ^a   Baker, Ashlee N ^a   Nielson, Kirsten A ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Anderson University South Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude strength; Multilevel modeling; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 81455158893     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2011.07.006     Document Type: Article

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