Cross-National Measurement Invariance of the Teacher and Classmate Support Scale

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 145-160

  Torsheim, Torbjørn ^a   Samdal, Oddrun ^a   Rasmussen, Mette ^b   Freeman, John ^c   Griebler, Robert ^d   Dür, Wolfgang ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Crosscultural; HBSC; Measurement; Self report; Social support

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; STUDENT;

EID: 82655181527     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-010-9770-9     Document Type: Article

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