Analyses of measurement equivalence across gender in the Mentoring Functions Questionnaire (MFQ-9)

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 199-205

  Hu, Changya ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Gender; Measurement equivalence invariance; Mentoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649186847     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.03.016     Document Type: Article

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