The personality assessment inventory borderline, drug, and alcohol scales as predictors of overall performance in police officers: a series of exploratory analyses

Policing and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 301-310

  Weiss, Peter A ^a   Hitchcock, John H ^b   Weiss, William U ^c   Rostow, Cary ^d   Davis, Robert ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD   (United States)

^b ICF INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE   (United States)

^d Matrix Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Personality Assessment Inventory; Police

Indexed keywords

EID: 85050840191     PISSN: 10439463     EISSN: 14772728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10439460802091708     Document Type: Article

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