Item selection and validation of a brief, 15-item version of the Need for Closure Scale

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 90-94

  Roets, Arne ^a   Van Hiel, Alain ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Abridged; Brief; Item selection; Motivated cognition; Need for Closure Scale; Short; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957925642     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.09.004     Document Type: Article

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