Assessing personality in early adolescence through self-report and other-ratings a multitrait-multimethod analysis of the BFQ-C

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 876-886

  Barbaranelli, Claudio ^a   Fida, Roberta ^a   Paciello, Marinella ^a   Giunta, Laura Di ^a   Caprara, Gian Vittorio ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Big five; Confirmatory Factor Analysis; Early adolescence; multitrait multimethod

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349169045     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.10.014     Document Type: Article

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