German version of the Kuwait University Anxiety Scale: Psychometric parameters

Psychological Reports

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 390-395

  Abdel Khalek, Ahmed M ^a   Reschke, Konrad ^b   Rudwan, Samer ^c   Tanjour, Ismail ^d  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c DAMASCUS UNIVERSITY   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^d HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; KUWAIT; LANGUAGE; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; KUWAIT; LANGUAGE; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSLATING;

EID: 33751529485     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PR0.99.2.390-395     Document Type: Article

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