Measuring anxiety by ordered categorical items in data with subgroup structure: The case of the Hungarian version of the trait anxiety scale of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAIC-H)

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 49-67

  Hagtvet, Knut A ^a   Sipos, Kornel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Categorical items; Measuring trait anxiety; MIMIC model; Multi group analysis; Subgroup effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842659181     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1061580031000151611     Document Type: Article

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