Reliability of implicit self-esteem measures revisited

European Journal of Personality

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 239-251

  Krause, Sascha ^a   Back, Mitja D ^b   Egloff, Boris ^b   Schmukle, Stefan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Implicit self esteem; Indirect measures; Internal consistency; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956008681     PISSN: 08902070     EISSN: 10990984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/per.792     Document Type: Article

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