Individual differences in response scale use: Mixed Rasch modelling of responses to NEO-FFI items

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1235-1245

  Austin, Elizabeth J ^a   Deary, Ian J ^a   Egan, Vincent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mixed Rasch models; Personality; Psychometrics; Response set; Statistical modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644596510     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2005.10.018     Document Type: Article

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