Inspired to get there: The effects of trait and goal inspiration on goal progress

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 56-60

  Milyavskaya, Marina ^a   Ianakieva, Iana ^a   Foxen Craft, Emily ^a   Colantuoni, Agnes ^a   Koestner, Richard ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Goal pursuit; Inspiration; Personality traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 82455212143     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.08.031     Document Type: Article

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