Big Five personality profiles of context-specific achievement goals

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 698-707

  McCabe, Kira O ^a   Van Yperen, Nico W ^a   Elliot, Andrew J ^b   Verbraak, Marc ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Achievement goals; Big Five; Personality traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881262234     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2013.06.003     Document Type: Article

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