The KAI cognitive style inventory: Was it personality all along?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1044-1049

  von Wittich, Daniel ^a   Antonakis, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptors Innovators; Cognitive style; KAI; Leadership; Measurement error; NEO PI; Personality; Psychometrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952630355     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.01.022     Document Type: Article

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