Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) items characteristics among undergraduate students of nineteen islamic countries

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 675-684

  Alansari, Bader M ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

BDI II items characteristics; Content validity; Internal consistency; Islamic countries; Undergraduate students

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644488083     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2005.33.7.675     Document Type: Article

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