Measurement invariance across gender and major: The love of money among university students in People's Republic of China

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 281-293

  Du, Linzhi ^a,c   Tang, Thomas Li Ping ^b  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; College major; Configural invariance; Gender; Metric invariance; The love of money scale; The money ethic scale; University students

Indexed keywords

EID: 22044453553     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-004-6395-4     Document Type: Article

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