Psychometric properties of the emotion awareness questionnaire for children in a French-speaking population

Journal of Personality Assessment

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 317-326

  Lahaye, Magali ^a,b   Luminet, Olivier ^a,b   Van Broeck, Nady ^a,c   Bodart, Eddy ^d   Mikolajczak, Moïra ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF MONT GODINNE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BELGIUM; CHILD; EMOTION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; AWARENESS; BELGIUM; CHILD; EMOTIONS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 77953677754     PISSN: 00223891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2010.482003     Document Type: Article

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