Exploring the nature of evaluative person descriptors through scale development

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1271-1284

  Simms, Leonard J ^a   Yufik, Tom ^a   Thomas, Jeffrey P ^a   Simms, Ericka Nus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Seven model; Evaluative person descriptors; Scale development; Self informant agreement; Temporal stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 51749087049     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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