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What Can We Learn from the Discussion of Personality Questionnaires for the Construction of Temperament Inventories?

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Book cover Explorations in Temperament

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The intention of this chapter is to analyze common and distinct procedures and problems that are prevalent in the construction and use of temperament and personality questionnaires. We start from the assumption that meaningful differences exist between the concepts of personality and temperament, and outline some consequences of these differences for the generation of questionnaire items and the subsequent item-selection process. The main focus of this chapter is the assessment of temperament in adults.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Bielefeld, D-4800, Bielefeld, Germany

    Alois Angleitner & Rainer Riemann

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  1. University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

    Jan Strelau

  2. University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

    Alois Angleitner

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Angleitner, A., Riemann, R. (1991). What Can We Learn from the Discussion of Personality Questionnaires for the Construction of Temperament Inventories?. In: Strelau, J., Angleitner, A. (eds) Explorations in Temperament. Perspectives on Individual Differences. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0643-4_13

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