The bidirectional relation between positive mental health and psychopathology in a longitudinal representative panel study

Journal of Positive Psychology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 553-560

  Lamers, Sanne M A ^a   Westerhof, Gerben J ^a   Glas, Cees A W ^a   Bohlmeijer, Ernst T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

item response theory; latent growth modeling; positive mental health; psychopathology; two continua model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941261779     PISSN: 17439760     EISSN: 17439779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17439760.2015.1015156     Document Type: Article

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