Beyond congruence measures for the evaluation of personality factor structure replicability: An exploratory structural equation modeling approach

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 84, Issue , 2015, Pages 23-29

  Perera, Harsha N ^a   McIlveen, Peter ^a   Burton, Lorelle J ^a   Corser, Diane M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

CFA; Congruence; Construct validity; ESEM; Factor replicability; Invariance; Multiple groups; NEO

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941599910     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2015.01.004     Document Type: Article

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