Goals to change personality traits: Concurrent links between personality traits, daily behavior, and goals to change oneself

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 53, Issue , 2014, Pages 68-83

  Hudson, Nathan W ^a   Roberts, Brent W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Change goals; Personality development; Volitional personality change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907480600     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2014.08.008     Document Type: Article

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