Personality and Leisure Activity: Sensation Seeking and Spare-Time Activities

On the Psychobiology of Personality: Essays in Honor of Marvin Zuckerman

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 167-183

  Furnham, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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