The beck depression inventory: Testing for its factorial validity and invariance across gender for bulgarian non-clinical adolescents

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 641-651

  Byrne, Barbara M ^a   Baron, Pierre ^a   Balev, Jorj ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

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EID: 0030295371     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0191-8869(96)00134-1     Document Type: Article

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