Personality for free: Psychometric properties of a public domain Australian measure of the five-factor model

Australian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 167-174

  Murray, Greg ^a   Judd, Fiona ^b   Jackson, Henry ^c   Fraser, Caitlin ^d   Komiti, Angela ^c   Pattison, Pip ^c   Robins, Garry ^c  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Departments of Psychiatry   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Individual differences; Inventory; Personality; Personality assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449598329     PISSN: 00049530     EISSN: 17429536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049530802326784     Document Type: Article

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