Goals and plans for Big Five personality trait change in young adults

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 59, Issue , 2015, Pages 31-43

  Robinson, Oliver C ^a   Noftle, Erik E ^b   Guo, Jen ^c   Asadi, Samaneh ^d   Zhang, Xiaozhou ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d YAZD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Big Five; Change; Culture; Goals; Longitudinal; Plans; Traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943265361     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2015.08.002     Document Type: Article

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