Examining the latent structure of anxiety sensitivity in adolescents using factor mixture modeling

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 741-751

  Allan, Nicholas P ^a   MacPherson, Laura ^b   Young, Kevin C ^b   Lejuez, Carl W ^b   Schmidt, Norman B ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Anxiety sensitivity; Anxiety symptoms; Factor mixture modeling

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; CHILD; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHILD; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84906057776     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0036744     Document Type: Article

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