Development and validation of the German work-related curiosity scale

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 109-117

  Mussel, Patrick ^a   Spengler, Maik ^b   Litman, Jordan A ^c   Schuler, Heinz ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b S and F Personalpsychologie Managementberatung GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Curiosity; Frame of reference approach; Job performance; Openness to experience; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859035668     PISSN: 10155759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1015-5759/a000098     Document Type: Article

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