Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents: Factorial Invariance Across Gender and Age in Hispanic American Adolescents

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Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 224-232

  La Greca, Annette M ^a   Ingles, Candido J ^b   Lai, Betty S ^c   Marzo, Juan C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescence; factorial invariance; gender; Hispanic American; social anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STANDARDS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANXIETY DISORDERS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOLOGY, ADOLESCENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84924912478     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: 15523489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191114540749     Document Type: Article

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