Establishing the validity and reliability of the Project Talent Personality Inventory

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Pozzebon, Julie ^a   Damian, Rodica I ^a   Hill, Patrick L ^b   Lin, Yuchen ^a   Lapham, Susan ^c   Roberts, Brent W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Construct validity; Personality scale; Project Talent; Project Talent Personality Inventory; Test retest reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891665939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00968     Document Type: Article

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