Personal need for structure as a construct of dispositional differences in social psychology: Psychometric analysis and validation of a German PNS scale;Personal need for structure als differenzialpsychologisches konstrukt in der sozialpsychologie: Psychometrische analyse und validierung einer deutschsprachigen PNS-skala

Zeitschrift fur Sozialpsychologie

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 87-97

  Machunsky, Maya ^a   Meiser, Thorsten ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ingroup bias; Perceived group homogeneity; Personal Need for Structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745140811     PISSN: 00443514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/0044-3514.37.2.87     Document Type: Article

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