Motivational traits: New directions and measuring motives with the multi-motive grid (MMG)

The SAGE Handbook of Personality Theory and Assessment: Volume 1 - Personality Theories and Models

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 521-544

  Langens, Thomas A ^a   Schmalt, Heinz Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

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