Psychometric testing of the Chinese version of the decisional balance scale (CDBS)

Health Education and Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 812-820

  Chen, Huey Shys ^a   Sheu, Jiunn Jye ^b   Chen, W William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Decisional balance scale; Reliability; Smoking acquisition; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SMOKING; STATISTICS; TAIWAN;

ADOLESCENT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SMOKING; TAIWAN;

EID: 33750920290     PISSN: 10901981     EISSN: 15526127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1090198105282411     Document Type: Article

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