Internal Consistency, Retest Reliability, and Their Implications for Personality Scale Validity

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Personality and Social Psychology Review

• Publication date

  2011-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1177/1088868310366253PMID 20435807PMCID PMC2927808
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