The Justice Sensitivity Inventory: Factorial Validity, Location in the Personality Facet Space, Demographic Pattern, and Normative Data

Social Justice Research

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 211-238

  Schmitt, Manfred ^a   Baumert, Anna ^a   Gollwitzer, Mario ^b   Maes, Jürgen ^c  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Five factor model of personality; Justice perceptions; Justice related traits; Perpetrator sensitivity; Personality facets

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955844031     PISSN: 08857466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11211-010-0115-2     Document Type: Article

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