The structure of Antonovsky's Orientation to Life Questionnaire

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 505-516

  Feldt, Taru ^a   Rasku, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Comprehensibility; Confirmatory factor analysis; Manageability; Meaningfulness; Orientation to life questionnaire; Sense of coherence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032165943     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(98)00077-4     Document Type: Article

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