Do individual response styles matter?

Journal of Individual Differences

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 69-81

  Wetzel, Eunike ^a   Böhnke, Jan R ^b   Carstensen, Claus H ^a   Ziegler, Matthias ^c   Ostendorf, Fritz ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

differential item functioning; mixed Rasch models; NEO PI R; response styles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878852130     PISSN: 16140001     EISSN: 21512299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-0001/a000102     Document Type: Article

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