Genetic and environmental structure of the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire: three or four temperament dimensions?

doi:10.1037//0022-3514.70.1.127

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Genetic and environmental structure of the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire: three or four temperament dimensions?

Journal of personality and social psychology - 1 Jan 1996

Stallings M C, Hewitt J K, Cloninger C R, Heath A C, Eaves L J

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Previous phenotypic factor analyses suggest that C. R. Cloninger's Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ; 1987c) assesses 4 rather than 3 temperament dimensions. The purpose of this study was to determine whether Cloninger's revised 4-factor model showed incremental validity over his orig...

Topics

Aged
Environment
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Personality
Personality Inventory
Phenotype
Surveys and Questionnaires
Temperament
Twins

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