Bias in an adapted version of the 15FQ+ in South Africa

South African Journal of Psychology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 340-356

  Meiring, Deon ^a   Van De Vijver, Fons J R ^b,c   Rothmann, Sebastiaan ^c  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICE   (South Africa)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

15FQ+; Construct bias; Cross cultural assessment; Internal consistency; Item bias; Personality; Personality assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749042791     PISSN: 00812463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/008124630603600208     Document Type: Article

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