Brief report: Development of a brief scale to assess family support function among Chinese high school students

Journal of Adolescence

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 879-883

  Hu, Guoqing ^a,b   Sun, Zhenqiu ^a   Hu, Ming ^a   Xia, Qiang ^a   Yin, Xunqiang ^a   Zheng, Lei ^a   Castillo, Renan C ^b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Family practice; High school students; Scale

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHINA; CHINESE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; EXPERT SYSTEM; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FAMILY FUNCTIONING; FAMILY RELATION; FAMILY STUDY; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HUMAN; INTERNAL VALIDITY; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 34548541609     PISSN: 01401971     EISSN: 10959254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2007.05.005     Document Type: Article

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