Assessing the measurement invariance of the RCADS-25 questionnaire across gender and child–parent dyads in the presence of multilevel data

Zahra Bagheri; Mahsa Akbari; Peyman Jafari; Tania B. Huedo-Medina

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Assessing the measurement invariance of the RCADS-25 questionnaire across gender and child–parent dyads in the presence of multilevel data

Zahra Bagheri Mahsa Akbari Peyman Jafari Tania B. Huedo-Medina

Quality of Life Research Vol. 28 No. 3 pp. 829-840 · Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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Zahra Bagheri, Mahsa Akbari, Peyman Jafari, et al. (2018). Assessing the measurement invariance of the RCADS-25 questionnaire across gender and child–parent dyads in the presence of multilevel data. Quality of Life Research, 28(3), 829-840. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-018-2049-3

Assessing the measurement invariance of the RCADS-25 questionnaire across gender and child–parent dyads in the presence of multilevel data

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