Personality in proportion: A bipolar proportional scale for personality assessments and its consequences for trait structure

Journal of Personality Assessment

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 120-127

  Hofstee, Willem K B ^a   Ten Berge, Jos M F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; LIKERT SCALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 4544265847     PISSN: 00223891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327752jpa8302_04     Document Type: Review

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