Factor invariance between genders on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fifth Edition

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 86, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-5

  Chen, Hsinyi ^a   Zhang, Ou ^b   Raiford, Susan Engi ^b   Zhu, Jianjun ^b   Weiss, Lawrence G ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b PEARSON   (United States)

Author keywords

Factorial invariance; Gender; Wechsler scales

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934876966     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2015.05.020     Document Type: Article

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