A General Factor of Personality in the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III, the Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology, and the Personality Assessment Inventory

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1091-1095

  Philippe Rushton, J ^a   Irwing, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big One; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM); Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology (DAPP); General Factor of Personality (GFP); Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory III (MCMI III); Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI); Personality structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350089642     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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