Psychometric evaluation of Chinese-language 44-item and 10-item big five personality inventories, including correlations with chronotype, mindfulness and mind wandering

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Carciofo, Richard ^a,b   Yang, Jiaoyan ^a   Song, Nan ^c   Du, Feng ^a   Zhang, Kan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b XI AN JIAOTONG LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING FOREIGN STUDIES UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CHRONOTYPE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONSCIENTIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAYDREAMING; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL FUNCTION ASSESSMENT; MIND WANDERING; MINDFULNESS; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; VERY ELDERLY; CHINA; EVALUATION STUDY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSLATING (LANGUAGE);

AGE FACTORS; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MINDFULNESS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SEX FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSLATING;

EID: 84960451593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149963     Document Type: Article

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