Development and validation of the Material Values Scale for children (MVS-c)

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 963-968

  Opree, Suzanna J ^a   Buijzen, Moniek ^a   van Reijmersdal, Eva A ^a   Valkenburg, Patti M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children; Materialism; Scale development; Scale validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053248192     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.07.029     Document Type: Article

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