Frequency of the use of English personality adjectives: Implications for personality theory

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 417-420

  Roivainen, Eka ^a  

^a Department of Neuropsychology ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

Big Five; Lexical hypothesis; Personality theory; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877315234     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2013.04.004     Document Type: Article

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