Is the Sense of Coherence-instrument applicable on adolescents? A latent trait analysis using Rasch-modelling

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 955-968

  Hagquist, Curt ^a,b   Andrich, David ^c  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CENTRE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Rasch; Sense of Coherence; Unidimensional

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742306513     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(03)00164-8     Document Type: Article

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