Validation of the biosocial model of personality: Confirmatory factor analysis of the tridimensional personality questionnaire

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 139-144

  Parker, James D A ^a   Bagby, R Michael ^b   Joffe, Russell T ^c  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; REWARD;

EID: 0030037444     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1040-3590.8.2.139     Document Type: Article

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