A psychometric assessment of a Swedish translation of Shafer's personality scale

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 523-530

  Hochwälder, Jacek ^a,b  

^a MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Stockholm Centre of Public Health   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Psychometric assessment; Shafer's big five marker scale

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SWEDEN; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SWEDEN; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 33751102370     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: 14679450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2006.00524.x     Document Type: Article

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