Developing and testing an original Arabic religiosity scale

Middle East Current Psychiatry

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 127-138

  Khalaf, Dany R ^a   Hlais, Sani A A ^a   Haddad, Ramzi S ^a   Mansour, Chantal M ^a   Pelissolo, Antoine J ^a   Naja, Wadih J ^a  

^a LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

beliefs; private and public religiosity; scales; spirituality; statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899808939     PISSN: 20905408     EISSN: 20905416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.XME.0000444753.76812.79     Document Type: Article

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