Testing the measurement equivalence of personality adjective items across cultures

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1524-1536

  Nye, Christopher D ^a   Roberts, Brent W ^a   Saucier, Gerard ^b   Zhou, Xinyue ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cross cultural personality; Measurement equivalence

Indexed keywords

EID: 57049100320     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2008.07.004     Document Type: Article

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