Subjective Happiness of Lebanese College Youth in Lebanon: Factorial Structure and Invariance of the Arabic Subjective Happiness Scale

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 203-210

  Moghnie, Lamia ^a   Kazarian, Shahe S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Birth order; Factor structure; Factorial invariance; Lebanese college youth; Subjective happiness scale

Indexed keywords

FACTOR ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; STUDENT; TESTING METHOD; YOUNG POPULATION;

LEBANON;

EID: 84867037011     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-011-9895-5     Document Type: Article

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