Method effects due to social desirability as a parsimonious explanation of the deviation from unidimensionality in LOT-R scores

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1597-1607

  Rauch, Wolfgang A ^a   Schweizer, Karl ^a   Moosbrugger, Helfried ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Method effects; Optimism; Pessimism; Socially desirable responding

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947316103     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.10.035     Document Type: Article

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