Culture and validity of the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised and Profile of Mood States in a New Zealand student sample

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 185-196

  Barker Collo, Suzanne L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Assessment; Culture; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONFUSION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEW ZEALAND; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PARANOIA; PHOBIA; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOSIS; RACE; RATING SCALE; SOMATIZATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0037407608     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.9.2.185     Document Type: Article

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