Methods matter: Testing competing models for designing short-scale Big-Five assessments

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 59, Issue , 2015, Pages 56-68

  Olaru, Gabriel ^a   Witthöft, Michael ^b   Wilhelm, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ant Colony Optimization; Genetic Algorithm; Item selection; Maximizing Main Loadings; Modification index; Personality; PURIFY; Short scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944339121     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2015.09.001     Document Type: Article

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