No support for a general factor of personality in a reanalysis of Van der Linden et al. (2010)

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 512-516

  de Vries, Reinout E ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Big Five; General Factor of Personality (GFP); Personality structure; Social status; Structural equation modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650560746     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.11.020     Document Type: Article

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