Multitrait-multimethod analysis in psychotherapy research: New methodological approaches

Psychotherapy Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4-5, 2009, Pages 390-396

  Eid, Michael ^a   Geiser, Christian ^a   Nussbeck, Fridtjof Wilhelm ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Evaluation research; Latent state trait analysis; Multimethod assessment; Multitrait multimethod multioccasion analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; STATISTICS;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

EID: 77953165874     PISSN: 10503307     EISSN: 14684381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10503300802621198     Document Type: Article

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