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Four ways five factors are basic
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Metadata
- Authors
- Costa, P. T., & McCrae, R. R.
- Venue
- Personality and Individual Differences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1992-06
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 653-665
- ISSN
- 0191-8869 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2004632618
- Cited by
- 3,386
- References
- 104
- FWCI
- 26.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
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