Fear of Intimacy with Helping Professionals Scale: Reliability and Validity of English and Mandarin Versions

Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 317-332

  Ingersoll, Travis Sky ^a   Poulin, John ^b   Deng, Rong ^c   Shan, Xu ^b   Witt, Heather ^b   Swain, Melanie ^b  

^a WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WIDENER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHONGQING TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; exploratory factor analysis; Fear of intimacy; helping professionals; reliability; validity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOPERATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LONELINESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL WORK; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LONELINESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL WORK; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864682187     PISSN: 15433714     EISSN: 15433722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15433714.2010.516689     Document Type: Article

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