Real evidence for the failure of the Jamesian perspective or more evidence in support of it?

Journal of Personality

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1123-1136

  Hardy, Lew ^a   Leone, Christopher ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CHARACTER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION; STATISTICS;

ACHIEVEMENT; CHARACTER; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 51749116949     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2008.00515.x     Document Type: Article

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