Personality across working life: The longitudinal and reciprocal influences of personality on work

Journal of Organizational Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue SUPPL 1, 2013, Pages

  Woods, Stephen A ^a   Lievens, Filip ^b   De Fruyt, Filip ^b   Wille, Bart ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Careers; Five factor model; Personality; Personality development; Reciprocal influences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883457371     PISSN: 08943796     EISSN: 10991379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/job.1863     Document Type: Article

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