The reliability and validity of a susceptibility to embarrassment scale among adults

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 749-756

  Maltby, John ^a   Day, Liza ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Embarrassment; Reliability; Scale; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034288781     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(99)00229-9     Document Type: Article

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