Predictive and incremental validity of global and domain-based adolescent life satisfaction reports

Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 127-138

  Haranin, Emily C ^a   Huebner, E Scott ^a   Suldo, Shannon M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Incremental validity; Life satisfaction; Predictive validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247562190     PISSN: 07342829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734282906295620     Document Type: Article

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