A revised version of kremen and block's ego resiliency scale in an italian sample

TPM - Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology

Volumn 14, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 165-183

  Alessandri, Guido ^a   Vecchio, Giovanni Maria ^a   Steca, Patrizia ^b   Caprara, Maria Giovanna ^c   Caprara, Gian Vittorio ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Big five; Confirmatory analysis; Ego resiliency; Factorial invariance; Second order big five factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878285681     PISSN: 19726325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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