A More Nuanced View of Reliability: Specificity in the Trait Hierarchy

Personality and Social Psychology Review

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 97-112

  McCrae, Robert R ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

consensual validation; Five Factor Model; reliability; scalar equivalence; scale development

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

HUMANS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84926218222     PISSN: 10888683     EISSN: 15327957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1088868314541857     Document Type: Article

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