A comparison of the invariance properties of the PVQ-40 and the PVQ-21 to measure human values across German and Polish Samples

Survey Research Methods

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 37-48

  Cieciuch, Jan ^a   Davidov, Eldad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

And scalar invariance; Configural; Human values; Metric; PVQ 21; PVQ 40

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874406182     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18643361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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