Integrating competing dimensional models of personality: Linking the SNAP, TCI, and NEO using Item Response Theory

Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 107-126

  Stepp, Stephanie D ^a   Yu, Lan ^a   Miller, Joshua D ^b   Hallquist, Michael N ^a   Trull, Timothy J ^c   Pilkonis, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Item Response Theory; Personality measurement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHARACTER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; TEMPERAMENT;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHARACTER; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 84865988117     PISSN: 19492715     EISSN: 19492723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025905     Document Type: Article

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