Abstract
Results of factor analyses of personality have been inconsistent because of the use of different measures (ratings, behavior, questionnaires), biases of investigators, limited sampling of subjects and of aspects of personality, and varying naming of traits. The writer suggests that these difficultie
Keywords
PsychologyPersonalityBig Five personality traitsMinnesota Multiphasic Personality InventoryClinical psychologyCognitive psychologySocial psychology
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- 1943
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- 38
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- 4
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- 476-506
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Raymond B. Cattell
(1943).
The description of personality: basic traits resolved into clusters..
Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology
, 38
(4)
, 476-506.
https://doi.org/10.1037/h0054116
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- 10.1037/h0054116