Is it content or style? An evaluation of two competitive measurement models applied to a balanced set of ethnocentrism items

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-20

  Cambré, Bart ^a   Welkenhuysen Gybels, Jerry ^a   Billiet, Jaak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acquiescence; Cross cultural surveys; Method bias; Structural equation modelling

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR;

EID: 4344589270     PISSN: 00207152     EISSN: 17452554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002071520204300101     Document Type: Article

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