Exploring the latent structures of psychological constructs in social development using the dimensional-categorical spectrum

Social Development

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 470-493

  Masyn, Katherine E ^a   Henderson, Craig E ^b   Greenbaum, Paul E ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Factor mixture; Latent structure; Latent variable

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954778391     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2009.00573.x     Document Type: Article

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