An attempt to validate national mean scores of Conscientiousness: No necessarily paradoxical findings

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 630-640

  Mõttus, René ^a,b,c   Allik, Jüri ^a,b   Realo, Anu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b The Estonian Center of Behavioral and Health Sciences   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregate personality; Conscientiousness; Cross cultural; Predictive validity; Self reports; Subjective ratings

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957291797     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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