Measurement equivalence/invariance of the abusive supervision measure across workers from Taiwan and the United States

Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 111-131

  Hu, Changya ^a   Wu, Tsung Yu ^b   Wang, Yu Hsuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

abusive supervision; crosscultural comparisons; measurement equivalence invariance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMPLOYMENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES; WORKPLACE;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMPLOYMENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES; WORKPLACE;

EID: 79551706822     PISSN: 00223980     EISSN: 19401019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00223980.2010.542505     Document Type: Article

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