Classroom ratings of likeability and popularity are related to the Big Five and the general factor of personality

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 669-672

  van der Linden, Dimitri ^a   Scholte, Ron H J ^b   Cillessen, Antonius H N ^b   Nijenhuis, Jan te ^c   Segers, Eliane ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Big five; General personality factor; Social status; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957320544     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2010.08.007     Document Type: Article

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