The HEXACO model of personality structure and indigenous lexical personality dimensions in Italian, Dutch, and English

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 851-875

  Ashton, Michael C ^a   Lee, Kibeom ^b   de Vries, Reinout E ^c   Perugini, Marco ^d   Gnisci, Augusto ^e   Sergi, Ida ^e  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^e SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

HEXACO; Lexical hypothesis; Personality structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750808933     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2005.06.003     Document Type: Article

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