Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the M5-50: An Implementation of the International Personality Item Pool Item Set

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-49

  Socha, Alan ^a   Cooper, Christopher A ^a   McCord, David M ^a  

^a WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Five factor model of personality; IPIP; M5 50

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNATIONAL PERSONALITY ITEM POOL; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY TEST; RELIABILITY; STAFF; UNIVERSITY; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77950224259     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017371     Document Type: Article

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