No evidence for a General Factor of Personality in the HEXACO Personality Inventory

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 229-232

  de Vries, Reinout E ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Big Five; Big One; FFM; General Factor of Personality (GFP); HEXACO; Higher order personality factors; Personality structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953254479     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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