Psychometric evaluation of the Spiritual Coping Strategies scale in English, Maltese, back-translation and bilingual versions

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 558-570

  Baldacchino, Donia R ^a   Buhagiar, Anton ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Maltese translation; Spiritual coping strategies; Test retest reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; NURSING; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; RELIGION; REPRODUCIBILITY; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; MALTA; NURSING STUDENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MALTA; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPIRITUALITY; STUDENTS, NURSING;

EID: 0042736618     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2003.02659.x     Document Type: Article

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