Validity and reliability of the multidimensional health locus of control scale for college students

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Moshki, Mahdi ^a,b   Ghofranipour, Fazlollah ^b   Hajizadeh, Ebrahim ^b   Azadfallah, Parviz ^b  

^a GONABAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; CONTROL; INSTRUMENTATION; IRAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF EVALUATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; IRAN; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); STUDENTS; TRANSLATIONS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 38349008421     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-295     Document Type: Article

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