The road to creative achievement: A latent variable model of ability and personality predictors

European Journal of Personality

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 95-105

  Jauk, Emanuel ^a   Benedek, Mathias ^a   Neubauer, Aljoscha C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Creative achievement; Creative activities; Creative potential; Intelligence; Structural equation modelling (SEM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893832907     PISSN: 08902070     EISSN: 10990984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/per.1941     Document Type: Article

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