Depressive response sets due to gender and culture-based differential item functioning

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 937-954

  Lange, Rense ^a   Thalbourne, Michael A ^b   Houran, James ^c   Lester, David ^d  

^a Illinois State Board of Education   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Depressive response sets; Differential item functioning; Gender bias; Rasch scaling; Thalbourne's manic depressiveness scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037136992     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(01)00203-3     Document Type: Article

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