Social desirability and consensual validity of personality traits

European Journal of Personality

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 549-566

  Konstabel, Kenn ^a,b   Aavik, Toivo ^a   Allik, Jüri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Consensual validity; Moderator analysis; NEO PI R; Personality traits; Social desirability; Suppressor variable

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748287503     PISSN: 08902070     EISSN: 10990984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/per.593     Document Type: Article

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