A picture story exercise set in a German and a cameroonian sample: Ipsative stability, retest reliability, and sample-level stability

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 125-131

  Busch, Holger ^a   Hofer, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Culture; Implicit motives; Longitudinal study; Picture story exercise; Reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859043714     PISSN: 10155759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1015-5759/a000100     Document Type: Article

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