Gender difference in motives of knowledge searching: Measurement invariance and factor mean comparison of the interest/deprivation epistemic curiosity

Proceedings - 2010 IEEE 2nd Symposium on Web Society, SWS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 258-263

  Huang, Duan ^a,b   Wang, Li ^a   Zhou, Mingjie ^a   Zhang, Jianxin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

2-FACTORS; CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; FACTOR STRUCTURE; FACTORIAL INVARIANCE; FEMALE STUDENTS; GENDER DIFFERENCES; JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS;

TEACHING;

INVARIANCE;

EID: 78650257690     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SWS.2010.5607444     Document Type: Conference Paper

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