A General Factor of Personality (GFP) from two meta-analyses of the Big Five: Digman (1997) and Mount, Barrick, Scullen, and Rounds (2005)

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 679-683

  Rushton, J Philippe ^a   Irwing, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big Five; Big One; Big Two; Evolutionary Psychology; General Factor of Personality; Personality Structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249096054     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.07.015     Document Type: Article

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