The school anxiety scale-teacher report (SAS-TR): Translation and psychometric properties of the Iranian version

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hajiamini, Zahra ^a   Mohamadi, Ashraf ^a   Ebadi, Abbas ^a   Fathi Ashtiani, Ali ^a   Tavousi, Mahmoud ^b   Montazeri, Ali ^b  

^a BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTENT VALIDITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELEMENTARY STUDENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; IRAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL ANXIETY SCALE TEACHER REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PHOBIA; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; ANXIETY DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLICATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCHOOL; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHILD; FACULTY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHOOLS; STUDENTS; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 84872107481     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-12-82     Document Type: Article

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