The NEO personality inventory revised (NEO-PI-R): Exploring the measurement structure and variants of the five-factor model

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1300-1304

  Vassend, Olav ^a   Skrondal, Anders ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Measurement models; NEO PI R; The five factor model

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953163716     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.03.002     Document Type: Article

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