Validation of the social and emotional health survey for five sociocultural groups: Multigroup invariance and latent mean analyses

Psychology in the Schools

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 349-362

  You, Sukkyung ^a   Furlong, Michael ^b   Felix, Erika ^b   O'Malley, Meagan ^c  

^a Hankuk University of Foreign Studies   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WestEd   (United States)

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EID: 84928917229     PISSN: 00333085     EISSN: 15206807     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pits.21828     Document Type: Article

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