Improvements in social functioning reported by a birth cohort in mid-adult life: A person-centred analysis of GHQ-28 social dysfunction items using latent class analysis

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 305-316

  Ploubidis, George B ^a   Abbott, Rosemary A ^a   Huppert, Felicia A ^a   Kuh, Diana ^b   Wadsworth, Michael E J ^b   Croudace, Tim J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

General health questionnaire; Latent class analysis; Latent structure analysis; Positive functioning; Positive outcomes; Social dysfunction

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751196615     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.07.010     Document Type: Article

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