Brief report: The Identity Style Inventory - Validation in Italian adolescents and college students

Journal of Adolescence

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 425-433

  Crocetti, Elisabetta ^a   Rubini, Monica ^b   Berzonsky, Michael D ^c   Meeus, Wim ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACERATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analyses; Identity styles; Italian validation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STUDENTS; TRANSLATIONS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 60849136912     PISSN: 01401971     EISSN: 10959254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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