Satisfaction with Life Scale: Analysis of factorial invariance across sexes

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1255-1260

  Atienza, Francisco L ^a   Balaguer, Isabel ^a   García Merita, María L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Assessment; Factorial; Invariance; Life; Multisample; Satisfaction; Sexes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041864120     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00332-X     Document Type: Article

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