Short measurements of personality - Validity and reliability of the GSOEP Big Five Inventory (BFI-S)

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 355-359

  Hahn, Elisabeth ^a   Gottschling, Juliana ^a   Spinath, Frank M ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Big five; Measurement; Panel studies; Personality; Reliability; Stability; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860558663     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2012.03.008     Document Type: Article

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