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Methods of Personality Inventory Development — A Comparative Analysis

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Personality Assessment via Questionnaires

Abstract

Although the heated debates about the “best” way of developing personality inventories have largely disappeared from the journals, the issue has continued to hold sufficient interest to be investigated empirically. During the past 2 decades more than a dozen comparative studies have been published. The present chapter attempts to summarize them in a concise manner.

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  1. Matthias Burisch
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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Universitätsstraße, D-4800, Bielefeld 1, Deutschland

    Alois Angleitner

  2. Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2075 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V6T 1W5

    Jerry S. Wiggins

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Burisch, M. (1986). Methods of Personality Inventory Development — A Comparative Analysis. In: Angleitner, A., Wiggins, J.S. (eds) Personality Assessment via Questionnaires. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70751-3_6

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