Exploring Issues of Personality Measurement and Structure Through the Development of a Short Form of the Eysenck Personality Profiler

Journal of Personality Assessment

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 271-280

  Petrides, K V ^a   Jackson, Chris J ^b   Furnham, Adrian ^c   Levine, Stephen Z ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EXTRAVERSION; EYSENCK PERSONALITY PROFILER SHORT FORM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURED MEANS ANALYSIS;

EID: 0346955865     PISSN: 00223891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327752JPA8103_10     Document Type: Article

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