Acquiescent responding in partially balanced multidimensional scales

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 319-326

  Lorenzo Seva, Urbano ^a   Ferrando, Pere J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; EMOTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXTRAVERSION; HUMAN; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EMOTIONS; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 67849086911     PISSN: 00071102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/000711007X265164     Document Type: Article

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