The Disgust Scale-R: A valid and reliable index to investigate separate disgust domains?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 325-330

  van Overveld, Mark ^a   de Jong, Peter J ^b   Peters, Madelon L ^c   Schouten, Erik ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disgust propensity; Disgust Scale; Psychometric evaluation; Reliability; Trait disgust; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958133134     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.03.023     Document Type: Article

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