Testing relations of crystallized and fluid intelligence and the incremental predictive validity of conscientiousness and its facets on career success in a small sample of German and Swiss workers

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue APR, 2016, Pages

  Hagmann von Arx, Priska ^a   Gygi, Jasmin T ^a   Weidmann, Rebekka ^a   Grob, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Career success; Conscientiousness; Income; Intelligence; Job satisfaction; Occupational skill level

Indexed keywords

EID: 84974601949     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00500     Document Type: Article

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