Who does well in life? Conscientious adults excel in both objective and subjective success

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2012, Pages

  Duckworth, Angela L ^a   Weir, David ^b   Tsukayama, Eli ^a   Kwok, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Five; Conscientiousness; Income; Personality; Subjective well being; Wealth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867114018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00356     Document Type: Article

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