Big Five personality and academic dishonesty: A meta-analytic review

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 72, Issue , 2015, Pages 59-67

  Giluk, Tamara L ^a   Postlethwaite, Bennett E ^b  

^a XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic dishonesty; Big Five; Cheating; Meta analysis; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907075326     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.08.027     Document Type: Article

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