Doing it all Bass-Ackwards: The development of hierarchical factor structures from the top down

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 347-358

  Goldberg, Lewis R ^a  

^a OREGON RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Hierarchical factor structures; Lexical personality factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646861661     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2006.01.001     Document Type: Article

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