Measuring the Big Five in Self-Report and Other Ratings: A Multitrait-Multimethod Study

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 31-43

  Barbaranelli, Claudio ^a   Caprara, Gian Vittorio ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Big five; Confirmatory factor analysis; Multitrait multimethod matrices

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034381853     PISSN: 10155759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027//1015-5759.16.1.31     Document Type: Article

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