Toward Standardized Measurement of Sexual Harassment: Shortening the SEQ-DoD Using Item Response Theory

Military Psychology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 49-72

  Stark, Stephen ^a   Chernyshenko, Oleksandr S ^a   Lancaster, Anita R ^b   Drasgow, Fritz ^a   Fitzgerald, Louise F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Defense Manpower Data Center   (United States)

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EID: 0010503694     PISSN: 08995605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327876MP1401_03     Document Type: Article

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