Maturation of work attitudes: Correlated change with big five personality traits and reciprocal effects over 15years

Journal of Organizational Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 507-529

  Wille, Bart ^a   Hofmans, Joeri ^b   Feys, Marjolein ^a   De Fruyt, Filip ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aging; Job satisfaction; Personality; Work attitudes; Work involvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898913861     PISSN: 08943796     EISSN: 10991379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/job.1905     Document Type: Article

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