Measurement invariance of divergent thinking across gender, age, and school forms

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-7

  Kuhn, Jörg Tobias ^a   Holling, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Creativity; Divergent thinking; Latent means analysis; Measurement invariance

Indexed keywords

EID: 62449136978     PISSN: 10155759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1015-5759.25.1.1     Document Type: Article

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