Reliability Shifts in Measurement Reactivity: Driven by Content Engagement or Self-Engagement?

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1080-1090

  Knowles, Eric S ^a   Byers, Brenda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGO; HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AFFECT; EGO; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0030139472     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.70.5.1080     Document Type: Article

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