The ability of Corah's Dental Anxiety Scale and Spielberger's State Anxiety Inventory to distinguish between fearful and regular Norwegian dental patients

Acta Odontologica Scandinavica

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 105-109

  Kvale, Gerd ^a   Berg, Einar ^a   Raadal, Magne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dental fear; Reliability; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTAL ANXIETY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NORWAY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DENTAL ANXIETY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANIFEST ANXIETY SCALE; NORWAY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0032037004     PISSN: 00016357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016359850136076     Document Type: Article

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