Internal consistency of an Arabic adaptation of the beck depression inventory-ii with college students in eighteen Arab countries

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 425-430

  Alansari, Bader M ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Arabic countries; BDI II; Internal consistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646677705     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2006.34.4.425     Document Type: Article

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