Validation of the Social Well-being Scale in a Chinese Sample and Invariance Across Gender

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 607-618

  Li, Miaoyun ^a   Yang, Dong ^a   Ding, Cody ^a   Kong, Feng ^b  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Gender invariance; Social well being; Translation; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939889869     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: 15730921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-014-0639-1     Document Type: Article

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