On the validity of cross-cultural social studies using student samples

Field Methods

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 399-412

  Flere, Sergej ^a   Lavrič, Miran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Cross cultural studies; Student samples; Validity; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 53249088132     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X08322703     Document Type: Article

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