Exploring the Dimensionality of Digit Span

Assessment

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 188-198

  Bowden, Stephen C ^a,b   Petrauskas, Vilija M ^a,b   Bardenhagen, Fiona J ^a,b   Meade, Catherine E ^a,b   Simpson, Leonie C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

confirmatory factor analysis; digit span; measurement invariance; unidimensionality; Wechsler Scales; working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875283801     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: 15523489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191112457016     Document Type: Article

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