Self-Other Agreement and Assumed Similarity in Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Trait Affect: Distinguishing the Effects of Form and Content

Assessment

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 723-737

  Beer, Andrew ^a   Watson, David ^b   McDade Montez, Elizabeth ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

assessment; assumed similarity; method variance; self other agreement; validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT; ASSUMED SIMILARITY; CHARACTER; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHOD VARIANCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSIS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SELF-OTHER AGREEMENT; SPOUSE; STATISTICS; VALIDITY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ASSESSMENT; ASSUMED SIMILARITY; METHOD VARIANCE; SELF-OTHER AGREEMENT; VALIDITY;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHARACTER; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; SPOUSES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891869593     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: 15523489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191113500521     Document Type: Article

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