Simple measures and complex structures: Is it worth employing a more complex model of personality in Big Five inventories?

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 599-608

  Herrmann, Anne ^a   Pfister, Hans Rüdiger ^b  

^a Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences   (Switzerland)

^b LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

16PF; Big Five structure; Confirmatory factor analysis; Construct validity; Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling; Multitrait multimethod; NEO PI R; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879455791     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2013.05.004     Document Type: Article

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