Self-Reported Personality Variability Across the Social Network Is Associated With Interpersonal Dysfunction

Journal of Personality

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 359-390

  Clifton, Allan ^a   Kuper, Laura E ^a  

^a VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPATHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOPATHY; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT; SELF-ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952658686     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2010.00686.x     Document Type: Article

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