The reliability of a Picture Story Exercise measure of implicit motives: Estimates of internal consistency, retest reliability, and ipsative stability

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1560-1571

  Schultheiss, Oliver C ^a   Liening, Scott H ^b   Schad, Daniel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer aided assessment; Content coding; Implicit motives; Learning theory; Longitudinal assessment; Need for achievement; Need for affiliation; Need for power; Personality theory; Picture story exercise; Stability; Test reliability; Test theory; Thematic apperception; Verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349170146     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2008.07.008     Document Type: Article

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