The assessment of optimistic self-beliefs: Comparison of the Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Korean versions of the general self-efficacy scale

Psychologia

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-13

  Schwarzer, Ralf ^c   Born, Aristi ^d   Iwawaki, Saburo ^a   Lee, Young Min ^d   Saito, Etsuko ^d   Yue, Xiaodong ^b  

^a SHOWA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d NONE

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