期刊论文

Zhou, Zhijin;Cropley, David Haywood

英文

Personality and Individual Differences

0191-8869

2020

166

110215

10.1016/j.paid.2020.110215

National Natural Science Foundation of China (31471000)Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Cultivation Program of Central China Normal University (2019YBZZ082).We sincerely appreciate the funds support from the China Scholarship Council. We also would like to thank Dr. Junyi Li from Sichuan Normal University for critical reading of this article, and Xuemei Chen and Hualin Luo from Central China Normal University for helping to evaluate experimental materials. We sincerely appreciate the funds support from the China Scholarship Council . We also would like to thank Dr. Junyi Li from Sichuan Normal University for critical reading of this article, and Xuemei Chen and Hualin Luo from Central China Normal University for helping to evaluate experimental materials.

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