The measurement equivalence of Big-Five factor markers for persons with different levels of education

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 53-61

  Rammstedt, Beatrice ^a   Goldberg, Lewis R ^b   Borg, Ingwer ^a  

^a GESIS LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b OREGON RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquiescence response bias; Big Five; Factor structure; Measurement equivalence

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949267088     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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