Harter's self-perception profile for children: Factor structure, reliability, and convergent validity in a Dutch-speaking Belgian sample of fourth, fifth and sixth graders

Psychologica Belgica

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 29-47

  Van Den Bergh, Bea R H ^a,c,e   Marcoen, Alfons ^b,d  

^a Population and Family Study Centre   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Belgian Population and Family Study Centre   (Belgium)

^d Centre for Developmental Psychology

^e CBGS   (Belgium)

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EID: 0033455677     PISSN: 00332879     EISSN: 2054670X     Source Type: Journal    
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