Use of item ratings to examine personality test item cognitive response processes

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 897-905

  Gordon, Eric D ^a   Holden, Ronald R ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0030527309     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(96)00156-0     Document Type: Article

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