The NEO Personality Inventory-Revised: Factor Structure and Gender Invariance From Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling Analyses in a High-Stakes Setting

Assessment

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 14-23

  Furnham, Adrian ^a   Guenole, Nigel ^b   Levine, Stephen Z ^c   Chamorro Premuzic, Tomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Big Five; NEO Personality Inventory Revised; NEO PI R; norms; personality traits; psychometrics

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREER MOBILITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TEST; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAREER MOBILITY; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONNEL SELECTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872726760     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: 15523489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191112448213     Document Type: Article

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