Measuring children's mental health functioning: Confirmatory factor analysis of a multidimensional measure

Social Work Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 42-53

  Potter, Cathryn C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Child mental health; Confirmatory factor analysis; Level of functioning; Mental health

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037856980     PISSN: 10705309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/swr/23.1.42     Document Type: Article

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