Chinese version of the Responses to Positive Affect Questionnaire: Testing the factor structure, reliability, and validity in a college student sample

Psychological Reports

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 467-484

  Yang, Hongfei ^a   Guo, Wenjing ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; CHINA; DEVICES; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; STUDENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; CHINA; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908299175     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/08.21.PR0.115c22z8     Document Type: Article

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