Cross-cultural validation of the positivity-scale in five European countries

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 71, Issue , 2014, Pages 140-145

  Heikamp, Tobias ^a   Alessandri, Guido ^b   Laguna, Mariola ^c   Petrovic, Vesna ^d   Caprara, Maria Giovanna ^e   Trommsdorff, Gisela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c JOHN PAUL II CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

^d Faculty of Legal and Business Studies   (Serbia)

^e UNIVERSIDAD A DISTANCIA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Construct validity; Depression; Measurement invariance; Positivity; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906518127     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.07.012     Document Type: Article

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