Psychometric Validation of the Revised Family Affluence Scale: a Latent Variable Approach

Child Indicators Research

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 771-784

  Torsheim, Torbjørn ^a   Cavallo, Franco ^b   Levin, Kate Ann ^c   Schnohr, Christina ^d   Mazur, Joanna ^e   Niclasen, Birgit ^f   Currie, Candace ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c NHS GREATER GLASGOW AND CLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e INSTITUTE OF MOTHER AND CHILD   (Poland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescence; FASIII; HBSC; Measurement; SES

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979211143     PISSN: 1874897X     EISSN: 18748988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12187-015-9339-x     Document Type: Article

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