Psychometric properties of the social comparison motives scale

Journal of Nursing Measurement

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-44

  Tigges, Beth Baldwin ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Adolescents; Pregnancy; Psychometrics; Reliability; Social comparison; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 69949133017     PISSN: 10613749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/1061-3749.17.1.29     Document Type: Article

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