Profiles of personal resiliency for normative and clinical samples of youth assessed by the resiliency scales for children and adolescentsTM

Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 303-314

  Prince Embury, Sandra ^a   Steer, Robert A ^b  

^a The Resiliency Institute of Allenhurst   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Resiliency profile; RSCA; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954630323     PISSN: 07342829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734282910366833     Document Type: Article

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