Measurement equivalence across child self-reports and parent-proxy reports in the Chinese version of the pediatric quality of life inventory version 4.0

Child Psychiatry and Human Development

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 583-590

  Lin, Chung Ying ^a,e   Luh, Wei Ming ^b   Cheng, Chung Ping ^b   Yang, Ai Lun ^c   Su, Chia Ting ^d   Ma, Hui Ing ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TAIPEI   (Taiwan)

^d FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e Department of Occupational Therapy   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Child; Measurement equivalence; Parents; Quality of life; Reproducibility of results

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CUSTODY; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF REPORT; DEVICES; PROXY; PSYCHOLOGY;

CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARENTS; PROXY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF REPORT;

EID: 84884280521     PISSN: 0009398X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10578-012-0352-8     Document Type: Article

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