Internal consistency of the Kuwait University anxiety scale in ten arab countries

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 223-226

  Alansari, Bader ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Arab context; Cross cultural research; Internal consistency; KUAS; Undergraduate students

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442457571     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2004.32.3.221     Document Type: Article

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