Overlap between General Factors of Personality in the Big Five, Giant Three, and trait emotional intelligence

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 175-179

  Van der Linden, Dimitri ^a   Tsaousis, Ioannis ^b   Petrides, K V ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big Five; General Factor of Personality; Giant Three; Trait emotional intelligence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861712486     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.03.001     Document Type: Article

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