The cross-cultural validity of the Resilience Scale for Adults: A comparison between Norway and Brazil

BMC Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Hjemdal, Odin ^a   Roazzi, Antonio ^b   Dias, Maria da Graça B B ^b   Friborg, Oddgeir ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Centro Reg de Cien Nucleares CRCN/NE   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cross cultural validation; HSCL 25; Resilience; Resilience scale for Adults; Sense of Coherence

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007363876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20507283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/S40359-015-0076-1     Document Type: Article

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