Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling of Personality Data

Assessment

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 260-271

  Booth, Tom ^a   Hughes, David J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BFI; confirmatory factor analysis; ESEM; Five Factor model; NEO FFI

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY;

EID: 84901060581     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: 15523489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191114528029     Document Type: Article

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