Factor structure and psychometric characteristics of the Icelandic version of the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS)

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1247-1258

  Rafnsson, Fjolvar Darri ^a   Smari, Jakob ^a   Windle, Michael ^b   Mears, Stephanie A ^c   Endler, Norman S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

CFA; CISS; Coping; EPQ R

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644592945     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2005.11.011     Document Type: Article

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