Investigating context specificity, self-schema characteristics, and personality test validity

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 58, Issue , 2014, Pages 54-59

  Pomerance, Marne H ^a   Converse, Patrick D ^a  

^a FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context specificity; Frame of reference; Personality; Self concept clarity; Self concept differentiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888204147     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2013.10.005     Document Type: Article

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