A comment on Watson, Deary, and Austin (2007) and Watson, Roberts, Gow, and Deary (2008): How to investigate whether personality items form a hierarchical scale?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 502-503

  Meijer, Rob R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Item response theory; Mokken scaling; Personality assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 73749088331     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.11.004     Document Type: Article

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