Revaluating the evidence for the general factor of personality in the multidimensional personality questionnaire: Concerns about rushton and irwing (2009)

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 285-289

  Donnellan, M Brent ^a   Hopwood, Christopher J ^a   Wright, Aidan G C ^b,c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Five; Confirmatory factor analysis; Exploratory factor analysis; General Factor of Personality; Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire; Psychometrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 83555176070     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.10.018     Document Type: Article

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