The general factor of personality: Questions and elaborations

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 44-49

  Loehlin, John C ^a   Martin, Nicholas G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cloninger's Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire; Eysenck Personality Questionnaire; General factor of personality; Heritability; Items vs. scales; Non additive genetic variance; Rushton; Social desirability; Twins

Indexed keywords

EID: 79751538416     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2010.11.008     Document Type: Article

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