Validity of personal growth initiative scale scores with a Mexican American college student population

Journal of Counseling Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 496-502

  Robitschek, Christine ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PERSONAL GROWTH INITIATIVE SCALE; PREVALENCE; SAMPLING; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0242636166     PISSN: 00220167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0167.50.4.496     Document Type: Article

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