Identification and measurement of a more comprehensive set of person-descriptive trait markers from the English lexicon

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 258-272

  Wood, Dustin ^a   Nye, Christopher D ^b   Saucier, Gerard ^c  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Five; Gender differences; Personality measures; Personality structure; Personality traits; Reliability; Trait structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950046534     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2010.02.003     Document Type: Article

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