Meta-Analytic Guidelines for Evaluating Single-Item Reliabilities of Personality Instruments

Assessment

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 272-285

  Spörrle, Matthias ^a   Bekk, Magdalena ^b  

^a University of Applied Management   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Big Five personality model; foreign language translation; meta analysis; SIMP; single item measures of personality; test reliability; test validity

Indexed keywords

META ANALYSIS; NOMENCLATURE; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRANSLATING (LANGUAGE);

PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TRANSLATING;

EID: 84901021421     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: 15523489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191113498267     Document Type: Article

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