Diagnosing Response Style Behavior by Means of a Latent-Class Factor Approach. Socio-Demographic Correlates of Gender Role Attitudes and Perceptions of Ethnic Discrimination Reexamined

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 277-302

  Moors, Guy ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Ethnic minorities; Extreme response style; Latent class factor analysis; Lisrel models; Modified

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038346866     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024472110002     Document Type: Article

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