Are Jungian preferences really categorical?: An empirical investigation using taxometric analysis

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 233-251

  Arnau, Randolph C ^a,c   Green, Bradley A ^a   Rosen, David H ^a   Gleaves, David H ^a   Melancon, Janet G ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Jungian personality; Myers Briggs Type Indicator; Personal Preferences Self Description Questionnaire; Singer Loomis Type Deployment Inventory; Taxometric analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037290618     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00040-5     Document Type: Article

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