Factor analyses of "anxiety" and "neuroticism" inventories.

The Varimax Criterion for Analytic Rotation in Factor Analysis

Henry F. Kaiser · Psychometrika · 1958 · 7.6K citations

Education, Educational Measurement, Item Response Theory +15

A personality scale of manifest anxiety.

Janet A. Taylor · Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology · 1953 · 3.1K citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +15

The Social Desirability Variable in Personality Assessment and Research.

D. A. Sprott, Allen L. Edwards · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1959 · 1.5K citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +14

The Dynamics of Anxiety and Hysteria

J. C. Read, H. J. Eysenck · British Journal of Sociology · 1958 · 424 citations

Social Sciences, Psychiatry, Psychology +10

A theory of emotionally based drive (D) and its relation to performance in simple learning situations.

Kenneth W. Spence · American Psychologist · 1958 · 335 citations

Social Sciences, Educational Psychology, Psychology +6