Assessing Chinese adolescents' social support: The multidimensional scale of perceived social support

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 299-307

  Chou, Kee Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Chinese; Scale validation; Social support

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034135056     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(99)00098-7     Document Type: Article

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