Validating the Student-Teacher Relationship Scale: Testing factor structure and measurement invariance across child gender and age in a Dutch sample

Journal of School Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 215-234

  Koomen, Helma M Y ^a   Verschueren, Karine ^b   van Schooten, Erik ^a   Jak, Suzanne ^a   Pianta, Robert C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Confirmatory factor analysis; Elementary school; Gender; Measurement invariance; Student Teacher Relationship Scale

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCHOOL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FACULTY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHOOLS; SEX FACTORS; STUDENTS;

EID: 84857645563     PISSN: 00224405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsp.2011.09.001     Document Type: Article

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