Advancing personality assessment terminology: Time to retire "objective" and "protective" as personality test descriptors

Journal of Personality Assessment

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 223-225

  Meyer, Gregory J ^a   Kurtz, John E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; NOMENCLATURE; OBJECTIVE; PERSONALITY TEST; PROJECTIVE; PSYCHOLOGIST; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 33845631156     PISSN: 00223891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327752jpa8703_01     Document Type: Editorial

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