Financial capability, money attitudes and socioeconomic status: Risks for experiencing adverse financial events

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 344-349

  von Stumm, Sophie ^a   Fenton O'Creevy, Mark ^b   Furnham, Adrian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adverse financial events; Financial capability; Money attitudes; Socio economic status

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870255263     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.09.019     Document Type: Article

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