A hierarchy of items within Eysenck's EPI

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 333-335

  Watson, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b nee Shipley), Beverly   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eysenck Personality Inventory; Item response theory; Latent traits; Mokken scaling; Neuroticism; Personality; Psychometrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 45649083806     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.04.022     Document Type: Article

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