The effects of anonymity on the Holden Psychological Screening Inventory

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 737-742

  Holden, Ronald R ^a   Magruder, Charles D ^b   Stein, Steven J ^c   Sitarenios, Gill ^c   Sheldon, Shawna ^c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Deployment Surveillance Team   (United States)

^c Multi Health Systems   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anonymity; Defensiveness; HPSI; Identification; Psychopathology; Social desirability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000258892     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(98)00274-8     Document Type: Article

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