Contextualized personality: Traditional and new assessment procedures

Journal of Personality

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1229-1254

  Heller, Daniel ^a,c   Watson, David ^b   Komar, Jennifer ^a   Min, Ji A ^a   Perunovic, Wei Qi Elaine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROL; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY;

CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 36048934953     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2007.00474.x     Document Type: Article

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