Los Cinco Grandes Across Cultures and Ethnic Groups: Multitrait Multimethod Analyses of the Big Five in Spanish and English

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 729-750

  Benet Martínez, Verónica ^a   John, Oliver P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPAIN; STANDARD; STUDENT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CALIFORNIA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPAIN; STUDENTS; TRANSLATING;

EID: 0032159447     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.75.3.729     Document Type: Article

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