Multiple dimensions of health locus of control in a representative population sample: Ordinal factor analysis and cross-validation of an existing three and a new four factor model

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Otto, Christiane ^a   Bischof, Gallus ^b   Rumpf, Hans Jürgen ^b   Meyer, Christian ^c   Hapke, Ulfert ^d   John, Ulrich ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^d ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GERMANY; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SMOKING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SMOKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051589353     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-11-114     Document Type: Article

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