Psychometric analysis of the Chinese version of the posttraumatic growth inventory with cancer patients in Hong Kong and Taiwan

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 715-719

  Ho, Samuel M Y ^a   Law, Lawrence S C ^b   Wang, Ging Long ^c,d   Shih, Shih Ming ^c   Hsu, Sheng Hui ^c   Hou, Yi Chen ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^c KOO FOUNDATION SUN YAT SEN CANCER CENTER   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

cancer; cross cultural comparison; multisample confirmatory factor analysis; oncology; posttraumatic growth

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVOR; CHINESE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH INVENTORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; TAIWAN;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SPIRITUALITY; SURVIVORS; TAIWAN;

EID: 84874676103     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.3024     Document Type: Article

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