Are Informant Reports of Personality More Internally Consistent Than Self Reports of Personality?

Assessment

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 399-404

  Balsis, Steve ^a   Cooper, Luke D ^a   Oltmanns, Thomas F ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

informant report; internal consistency; personality; personality disorder; reliability; self report

Indexed keywords

AGED; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF REPORT;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF REPORT;

EID: 84937200170     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: 15523489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191114556100     Document Type: Article

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