Personality Traits and Body Weight Measures: Concurrent and Across-Time Associations

European Journal of Personality

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 398-408

  Armon, Galit ^a   Melamed, Samuel ^b   Shirom, Arie ^c   Shapira, Itzhak ^d   Berliner, Shlomo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b ACADEMIC COLLEGE OF TEL AVIV YAFFO   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Big Five; Body weight; Five factor model; Gender; Obesity; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881312619     PISSN: 08902070     EISSN: 10990984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/per.1902     Document Type: Article

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