Global self-esteem and method effects: Competing factor structures, longitudinal invariance, and response styles in adolescents

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 488-498

  Urbán, Róbert ^a   Szigeti, Réka ^a   Kökönyei, Gyöngyi ^a   Demetrovics, Zsolt ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Measurement model; Method effect; Response style; Self esteem

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SELF CONCEPT; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SELF CONCEPT; STUDENTS;

EID: 84901363144     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-013-0391-5     Document Type: Article

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