A Six-Factor Structure of Personality-Descriptive Adjectives: Solutions from Psycholexical Studies in Seven Languages

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 356-366

  Ashton, Michael C ^a   Perugini, Marco ^b   De Vries, Reinout E ^c   Boies, Kathleen ^d   Lee, Kibeom ^e,i   Szarota, Piotr ^f   Di Blas, Lisa ^g   De Raad, Boele ^h  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^f POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERSONALITY;

FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PERSONALITY; VOCABULARY;

EID: 1342282556     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.86.2.356     Document Type: Article

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