Latent structure of the sense of coherence scale in a French sample

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1079-1090

  Gana, Kamel ^a   Garnier, Stéphanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

French sample; Latent structure; Sense of Coherence Scale; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035511424     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00205-1     Document Type: Article

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