Development and Validation of the College Mattering Inventory with Diverse Urban College Students

Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 154-178

  Tovar, Esau ^a   Simon, Merril A ^b   Lee, Howard B ^b  

^a SANTA MONICA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Factor analysis; Factorial invariance; Marginality; Mattering; Scale; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349331526     PISSN: 07481756     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748175609344091     Document Type: Article

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