An examination of the factor structure for the youth self report on a multiethnic population

Research on Social Work Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 315-325

  O'Keefe, Maura ^a   Mennen, Ferol ^a   Lane, Christianne Joy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Race ethnicity measurement invariance; YSR

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645697105     PISSN: 10497315     EISSN: 15527581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049731505285340     Document Type: Article

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