Consistency of extreme response style and non-extreme response style across traits

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 178-189

  Wetzel, Eunike ^a   Carstensen, Claus H ^a   Böhnke, Jan R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extreme response style; Mixed Rasch models; Non extreme response style; Response styles; Second order latent class analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872872744     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2012.10.010     Document Type: Article

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