The factor structure of Chinese personality terms

Journal of Personality

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 363-400

  Zhou, Xinyue ^a   Saucier, Gerard ^b   Gao, Dingguo ^a   Liu, Jing ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMETRY; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION; STATISTICS;

CHINA; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VOCABULARY;

EID: 61849105893     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2008.00551.x     Document Type: Article

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