Anger rumination in Hong Kong and Great Britain: Validation of the scale and a cross-cultural comparison

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1147-1157

  Maxwell, Jonathan P ^a   Sukhodolsky, Denis G ^b   Chow, Chris C F ^a   Wong, Cecilia F C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger Rumination Scale; British; Chinese; Confirmatory factor analysis; Structural equation modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 27144451426     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2005.03.022     Document Type: Article

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