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PERSONALITY & INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

The five factor model of personality as predictor of online shopping: Analyzing data from a large representative sample of Swedish internet users

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Article: 2024640 | Received 20 Jan 2020, Accepted 17 Nov 2021, Published online: 18 Feb 2022

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