The structure of the Levenson locus of control scale in young adults: Comparing item and parcel indicator models

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1416-1425

  Wilkinson, Wayne W ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes toward computers; Confirmatory factor analysis; Depression; Item parcels; Locus of control

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547169917     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.04.018     Document Type: Article

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