Testing competing models of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire's (SDQ's) factor structure for the parent-informant instrument

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 882-887

  McCrory, Cathal ^a   Layte, Richard ^a  

^a ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cohort study; Confirmatory Factor Analysis; Construct validity; Ireland; SDQ

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858747926     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.02.011     Document Type: Article

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