Comparability of personality test scores for immigrants and majority group members: Some Dutch findings

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 849-859

  Te Nijenhuis, Jan ^a,b   Van Der Flier, Henk ^a,b   Van Leeuwen, Liesbeth ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Dutch Railways   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Comparability; Construct validity; Group differences; Immigrants; Personality questionnaires; Personality tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031280944     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(97)00109-8     Document Type: Article

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