The Developmental Psychometrics of Big Five Self-Reports: Acquiescence, Factor Structure, Coherence, and Differentiation From Ages 10 to 20

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 718-737

  Soto, Christopher J ^a   John, Oliver P ^a   Gosling, Samuel D ^b   Potter, Jeff ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

five factor model; personality structure; reliability; validity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERNET; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; DATA COLLECTION; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERNET; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; VOCABULARY;

EID: 42649104768     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.94.4.718     Document Type: Article

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