Factorial structure and invariance of the academic expectations stress inventory across hispanic and Chinese adolescent samples

Child Psychiatry and Human Development

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 73-87

  Ang, Rebecca P ^a   Huan, Vivien S ^b   Braman, O Randall ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic stress; Expectations; Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis; Partial invariance

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC EXPECTATIONS STRESS INVENTORY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHINESE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPECTATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; RATING SCALE; SAMPLE; SCHOOL STRESS; SINGAPORE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; VALIDITY;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 34247594393     PISSN: 0009398X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10578-006-0044-3     Document Type: Article

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