Developing Cross Cultural Measurement

Developing Cross Cultural Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-160

  Tran, Thanh V ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Applied cross cultural research; Cross cultural evaluation; Cross cultural social work; Cross cultural validity; Cultural comparability; Global social work research; Measurement equivalence

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960414634     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195325089.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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