No evidence that social desirability response set explains the general factor of personality and its affective correlates

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 131-134

  Rushton, J Philippe ^a   Erdle, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b HURON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Affect; Big 5; Big one; Big two; Depression; Evaluative bias; General factor of personality; Method variance; Personality structure; Self esteem; Social desirability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF ESTEEM; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; TWINS; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

ADULT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY;

EID: 77953736999     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.13.2.131     Document Type: Article

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