A latent class analysis of life stress among female East Asian college students: A multi-country study.
Background: This study aimed to identify subgroups of East Asian female college students experiencing life stress frequencies, and examine whether a difference in general characteristics existed between the extracted classes.Methods: This used a cross-sectional design. Female college students from S...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Affective Disorders Vol. 310; pp. 310 - 318 |
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Elsevier B.V.
Aug2022
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