How Do Respondents Construe Ambiguous Response Formats of Affect Items?

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 956-968

  Segura, Susana Lloret ^a   González Romá, Vicente ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; SELF DISCLOSURE; SELF EVALUATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF DISCLOSURE; STATISTICS;

EID: 0242593106     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.85.5.956     Document Type: Article

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