Work ethic as a predictor of task persistence and intensity

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 37, Issue , 2015, Pages 249-254

  Meriac, John P ^a   Thomas, Amanda L E ^a   Milunski, Matthew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b Express Scripts ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Individual differences; Motivation; Task intensity; Task persistence; Work ethic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922461029     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2014.11.006     Document Type: Article

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