Tracking the elusive actual-ideal discrepancy model within latent subpopulations

Journal of Individual Differences

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 65-72

  Morin, Alexandre J S ^a   Scalas, L Francesca ^b   Marsh, Herbert W ^a,c,d  

^a AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

actual ideal; discrepancies; mixture SEM; profiles; self concept

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927920397     PISSN: 16140001     EISSN: 21512299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-0001/a000157     Document Type: Article

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