A bistable view of single constructs measured using balanced questionnaires: Application to trait anxiety

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 261-271

  Vautier, Stéphane ^a   Callahan, Stacey ^a   Moncany, Delphine ^a   Sztulman, Henri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS;

ALCOHOL ABUSE; QUESTIONNARIRES; STATE-TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY (STAI);

PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

EID: 2642549078     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15328007sem1102_7     Document Type: Article

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