The HEXACO personality factors in the indigenous personality lexicons of English and 11 other languages

Journal of Personality

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1001-1054

  Lee, Kibeom ^a,c   Ashton, Michael C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMANTICS; TRANSLATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 51749105655     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2008.00512.x     Document Type: Article

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