Interpersonal personality measures show circumplex structure based on new psychometric criteria

Journal of Personality Assessment

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 446-471

  Acton, G Scott ^a   Revelle, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INSTRUMENT; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; SIMULATION; THEORY;

EID: 0036916698     PISSN: 00223891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327752JPA7903_04     Document Type: Article

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