The Nature and Structure of Correlations Among Big Five Ratings: The Halo-Alpha-Beta Model

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1142-1156

  Anusic, Ivana ^a   Schimmack, Ulrich ^a   Pinkus, Rebecca T ^b   Lockwood, Penelope ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Five; evaluative bias; halo; higher order factors; personality structure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION; STATISTICS; STUDENT;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; STUDENTS;

EID: 72949119496     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017159     Document Type: Article

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