Big Five personality factors and the prediction of behavior: A multitrait-multimethod approach

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 160-166

  Hong, Ryan Y ^a   Paunonen, Sampo V ^a   Slade, Heather P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Big Five; Construct validity; Five Factor Model; Multitrait multimethod

Indexed keywords

EID: 43649100448     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.03.015     Document Type: Article

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