Target specificity of subjective relationship measures: Understanding the determination of item variance

Social Development

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 109-135

  Kiesner, Jeff ^a   Nicotra, Eraldo ^a   Notari, Giorgia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Friendship quality; Measurement; Multiple targets

Indexed keywords

EID: 13244271355     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2005.00293.x     Document Type: Article

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