How are personality trait and profile agreement related?

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue JUN, 2015, Pages

  Allik, Jüri ^a,b,c   Borkenau, Peter ^d   Hrebícková, Martina ^e   Kuppens, Peter ^f   Realo, Anu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b ESTONIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^c Cognitive Psychology Unit Department of Psychology ^*  (Netherlands)

^d MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Asendorpf's index; Rank Consistency Index; Self other agreement; Trait centered approach; Variable centered approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940516449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00785     Document Type: Article

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