Expanding and Reconceptualizing Aberrant Personality at Work: Validity of Five-Factor Model Aberrant Personality Tendencies to Predict Career Outcomes

Personnel Psychology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 173-223

  Wille, Bart ^a   De Fruyt, Filip ^a   De Clercq, Barbara ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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EID: 84873728601     PISSN: 00315826     EISSN: 17446570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/peps.12016     Document Type: Article

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