Personality related traits as predictors of music practice: Underlying environmental and genetic influences

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 74, Issue , 2015, Pages 133-138

  Butkovic, Ana ^a   Ullén, Fredrik ^b   Mosing, Miriam A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Big 5; Flow; Motivation; Music flow; Music practice; Openness; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922769316     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.10.006     Document Type: Article

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