Investigating Dimensionality of Eskin's Attitudes Toward Suicide Scale with Mokken Scaling and Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Archives of Suicide Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 226-237

  Nader, Ingo W ^a   Tran, Ulrich S ^a   Baranyai, Patricia ^a   Voracek, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

attitudes; confirmatory factor analysis; dimensionality; item response theory; Mokken scaling; suicide

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SUICIDE;

EID: 84864677536     PISSN: 13811118     EISSN: 15436136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13811118.2012.695271     Document Type: Article

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