A General Factor of Personality (GFP) from the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 571-576

  Rushton, J Philippe ^a   Irwing, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big Five; Big One; Big Two; General Factor of Personality; Life history theory; Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire; Personality structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649338408     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.05.011     Document Type: Article

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