An investigation of the factor structure of the 16PF, version 5

Journal of Individual Differences

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 38-46

  Irwing, Paul ^a   Booth, Tom ^a   Batey, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

16PF; confirmatory factor analysis; measurement invariance; personality; personality structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897832052     PISSN: 16140001     EISSN: 21512299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-0001/a000125     Document Type: Article

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