The school connection scale: A factor analysis

Psychological Reports

Volumn 87, Issue 3 PART 1, 2000, Pages 851-858

  Brown, Randall A ^a,c   Leigh, Geoffrey K ^d   Barton, Keith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA COOPERATIVE EXTENSION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCHOOL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL ALIENATION; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 0034572217     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2000.87.3.851     Document Type: Article

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