Assessing young adolescents' personality with the five-factor personality inventory

Assessment

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 304-316

  Jolijn Hendriks, A A ^a   Kuyper, Hans ^a   Johan Offringa, G ^a   Van Der Werf, Margaretha P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Big Five; FFPI; Personality; Reliability; Self report; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PERSONALITY TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 48849096583     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: 15523489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191107313761     Document Type: Article

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