Personality and Individual Differences
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Discipline | Personality psychology |
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Language | English |
Edited by | Donald H. Saklofske |
Publication details | |
History | 1980–present |
Publisher | |
Frequency | 16/year |
1.967 (2017) | |
Standard abbreviations | |
ISO 4 | Pers. Individ. Differ. |
NLM | Pers Individ Dif |
Indexing | |
CODEN | PEIDD9 |
ISSN | 0191-8869 |
LCCN | 85647765 |
OCLC no. | 04965018 |
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Personality and Individual Differences is a peer-reviewed academic journal published 16 times per year by Elsevier. It was established in 1980 and is the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences. The editor-in-chief is Donald Saklofske. Previous editors include Philip A. Vernon and Sybil B. G. Eysenck. The founding editor was Hans Jürgen Eysenck.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
- ASSIA
- Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
- PASCAL
- PsycINFO
- PsycLIT
- Scopus
- Social Sciences Citation Index
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 1.946, ranking it in the top 15 of over 60 journals in the category "Psychology, Social".[1] WIth an h5-index of 55, it is ranked second-equal among personality journals for five year h-ranked impact [2]
Scope
The journal covers individual differences, broadly conceived, with articles on social psychology, processes, personality, intelligence, specific facets of human nature such as creativity, and aggression as well as clinical, economic and HR applications. Articles often use techniques such as structural equation modeling and psychometric analysis of scales, or behavior genetic and evolutionary psychology approaches.
In 1985 the journal published "A revised version of the psychoticism scale", which described the revised version of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. This paper has been cited over 1600 times.[3][4]
References
- ^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Psychology, Social". 2011 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2012.
- ^ [Google Scholar Rankings https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_venues&vq=personality]
- ^ Eysenck, Sybil B. G.; Eysenck, Hans Jürgen; Barrett, Paul (1985). "A revised version of the psychoticism scale" (PDF). Personality and Individual Differences. 6 (1): 21–29. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.463.9614. doi:10.1016/0191-8869(85)90026-1.
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See also
2010 conservatism-psychoticism correlation error