Road prevention and safety: An instrument for measuring locus of control in the social marketing perspective

TPM - Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 41-61

  Falco, Alessandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Driving behavior; Locus of control; Road prevention and safety; Social marketing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878290605     PISSN: 19726325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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