The Lennox and Wolfe Revised Self-Monitoring Scale: Latent structure and gender invariance

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 627-637

  Cramer, Kenneth M ^a   Gruman, Jamie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Gender; Invariance; Psychometrics; Self monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 3242808109     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(01)00065-4     Document Type: Article

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