Measurement invariance and age-related differences of trait anger across the adult lifespan

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 334-339

  Zimprich, Daniel ^a   Mascherek, Anna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Absolute differences; Age differences; Differences in divergence; Measurement invariance; Structural differences; Trait anger

Indexed keywords

EID: 83555164726     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.10.030     Document Type: Article

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