The ego resiliency scale revised: A crosscultural study in Italy, Spain, and the United States

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 139-146

  Alessandri, Guido ^a   Vecchione, Michele ^a   Caprara, Gianvittorio ^a   Letzring, Tera D ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ego resiliency; Latent structure; Measurement invariance; Resilience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859021657     PISSN: 10155759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1015-5759/a000102     Document Type: Article

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