Measuring thirty facets of the Five Factor Model with a 120-item public domain inventory: Development of the IPIP-NEO-120

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 51, Issue , 2014, Pages 78-89

  Johnson, John A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Construct validation; Five Factor Model; International Personality Item Pool; IPIP; Personality assessment; Scale development; Self reports

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902990744     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2014.05.003     Document Type: Article

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