Evaluation of Validity and Reliability for Hierarchical Scales Using Latent Variable Modeling

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 495-508

  Raykov, Tenko ^a   Marcoulides, George A ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

criterion validity; hierarchical scale; latent variable modeling; multiple component measuring instrument; reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864659282     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2012.687675     Document Type: Article

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