Network Analysis: A New Way to Think about Personality

The Wiley Handbook of Personality Assessment

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 74-89

  Costantini, Giulio ^a   Perugini, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Betweenness Centrality; Closeness Centrality; Network Analysis; Strength Centrality; Tetrachoric Correlations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991755325     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119173489.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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