Multilevel Modeling in Personality and Social Psychology

The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Christ, Oliver ^a   Sibley, Chris G ^b   Wagner, Ulrich ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Integrated personality and social psychology; Multilevel framework; Multilevel modeling; Multilevel random coefficient model; Multilevel theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923515812     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195398991.013.0010     Document Type: Chapter

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