Assessing the rosenberg self-esteem scale dimensionality and items functioning in relation to self-efficacy and attachment styles

TPM - Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 229-242

  Mannarini, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attachment style; Item wording; Many facet rasch model; Rosenberg scale; Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051963809     PISSN: 19726325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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