The Big Five personality traits, material values, and financial well-being of self-described money managers

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1129-1142

  Donnelly, Grant ^a   Iyer, Ravi ^b   Howell, Ryan T ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conscientiousness; Debt; Materialism; Money management; Savings

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866183505     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2012.08.001     Document Type: Article

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