Reassessing the fit of the confirmatory factor analysis of the multidimensional students life satisfaction scale: Comments on "confirmatory factor analysis of the multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale"

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 181-185

  Shevlin, Mark ^a   Miles, Jeremy N V ^b   Lewis, Christopher Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

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