Development of a Japanese version of the herth hope index: Examination of reliability and validity of the scale for Japanese elderly persons

Kitakanto Medical Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 277-282

  Koizumi, Misako ^a   Ito, Mayumi ^a   Mori, Yoko ^a   Miyamoto, Misa ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hope; Japanese elderly persons; Psychological measurement; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 78349284923     PISSN: 13432826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2974/kmj.49.277     Document Type: Article

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