Privacy needs in office environments development of two behavior-based scales

European Psychologist

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 93-102

  Haans, Antal ^a   Kaiser, Florian G ^a   De Kort, Yvonne A W ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Item response theory; Measurement; Privacy; Rasch model; Social environments; Working conditions

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547262830     PISSN: 10169040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1016-9040.12.2.93     Document Type: Article

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