Hypercompetitiveness in Academia: Achieving criterion-related validity from item context specificity

Journal of Personality Assessment

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 80-99

  Bing, Mark N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPETITION; EXPERIENCE; MALADJUSTMENT; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY TEST; RELIABILITY; SPORT; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0032779533     PISSN: 00223891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327752JPA730106     Document Type: Article

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