Environmental risk to the self: Factor anaysis and development of subscales for the environmental appraisal inventory (EAI) with an irish sample

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 141-149

  Walsh Daneshmandi, Anne ^a   MacLachlan, Malcolm ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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EID: 0038786448     PISSN: 02724944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jevp.1999.0158     Document Type: Article

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