Reliability and validity of the fear of intimacy scale in China

Journal of Personality Assessment

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 270-279

  Ingersoll, Travis S ^a   Norvilitis, Jill M ^a   Zhang, Jie ^a   Jia, Shuhua ^b   Tetewsky, Sheldon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b DALIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPRESSION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEAR; FEMALE; FEMININITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RELIABILITY; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VALIDITY;

EID: 42249089351     PISSN: 00223891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00223890701885019     Document Type: Article

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