Person and environmental factors associated with well-being in medical students

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 472-477

  Rogers, Mary E ^a   Creed, Peter A ^a   Searle, Judy ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Academic stress; Career barriers; Career expectations; Concern about debt; Personality; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856216172     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.11.006     Document Type: Article

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