Loneliness and solitude in adolescence: A confirmatory factor analysis of alternative models

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 890-894

  Goossens, Luc ^a   Lasgaard, Mathias ^b   Luyckx, Koen ^a   Vanhalst, Janne ^a   Mathias, Stéphanie ^a   Masy, Eulalie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Aloneness; Confirmatory factor analysis; Loneliness; Solitude

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849101768     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.07.011     Document Type: Article

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