Measurement of social support across women from four ethnic groups: Evidence of factorial invariance

Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 45-58

  Wong, Sabrina T ^a,b   Nordstokke, David ^a   Gregorich, Steven ^b   Pérez Stable, Eliseo J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Asian; Chinese; Confirmatory factor analysis; Language; Latino; Psychometric analysis; Spanish

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ETHNIC GROUP; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STANDARD; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; ETHNIC GROUPS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77949317920     PISSN: 01693816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10823-010-9111-0     Document Type: Article

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