Self-informant agreement for personality and evaluative person descriptors: comparing methods for creating informant measures

European Journal of Personality

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 207-221

  Simms, Leonard J ^a   Zelazny, Kerry ^a   Yam, Wern How ^a   Gros, Daniel F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Big five; Big seven; Evaluative traits; Informant measures; Self informant agreement

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955645810     PISSN: 08902070     EISSN: 10990984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/per.763     Document Type: Article

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