Big five personality traits as the predictors of creative self-efficacy and creative personal identity: Does gender matter?

Journal of Creative Behavior

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 215-232

  Karwowski, Maciej ^a   Lebuda, Izabela ^a   Wisniewska, Ewa ^a   Gralewski, Jacek ^a  

^a THE MARIA GRZEGORZEWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

creative personal identity; creative self efficacy; gender differences; personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894490044     PISSN: 00220175     EISSN: 21626057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jocb.32     Document Type: Article

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