A comment on Watson, Deary, and Austin (2007) and Watson, Roberts, Gow, and Deary (2008): How to investigate whether personality items form a hierarchical scale?

被引:10
作者
Meijer, Rob R. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Groningen, DPMG, NL-9712 TS Groningen, Netherlands
关键词
Personality assessment; Item response theory; Mokken scaling;
D O I
10.1016/j.paid.2009.11.004
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
I comment on two recent papers by Watson et al. (2007, 2008) who investigated whether personality items form a hierarchical scale. I discuss that the methods they used are inappropriate and discuss alternative methods presented in the literature. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved..
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页码:502 / 503
页数:2
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