Personality, character and temperament: the cross-language structure of traits;Personnalité, caractère et tempérament : la structure translinguistique des traits

Psychologie Francaise

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 265-284

  Saucier, G ^a   Goldberg, L R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b OREGON RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Factor structure; Five factor personality model; Language; Personality traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746920504     PISSN: 00332984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psfr.2006.01.005     Document Type: Article

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