Assessing the unidimensionality of a set of items using factor-analytic procedures;Evaluación de la unidimensionalidad de los items mediante análisis factorial

Psicothema

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 397-410

  Ferrando, Pere Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

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