Five-Factor Model personality traits, materialism, and excessive buying: A mediational analysis

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 767-772

  Otero López, José Manuel ^a   Villardefrancos, Estíbaliz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Excessive buying; Five Factor Model; Materialism; Path analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873527139     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.12.013     Document Type: Article

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