The big three or the big five? A replication study

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 879-886

  Saggino, Aristide ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Big Five Questionnaire; Canonical correlation analysis; Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised; Factor analysis; Five factor theory; Personality; Three factor theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034179126     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(99)00146-4     Document Type: Article

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