About Some Personality Misfortunes of Opportunists: The Negative Correlation of Economic Defection With Autonomy, Agreeableness, and Well-Being

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 471-487

  Sakalaki, Maria ^a   Fousiani, Kyriaki ^b  

^a PANTEION UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

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EID: 84857013583     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: 15591816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2011.00780.x     Document Type: Article

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