A test of the measurement invariance of a brief version of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire between American and Spanish older adults.

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Published in Int Psychogeriatr on July 12, 2006

Authors

Roberto Nuevo1, Margaret-Anne Mackintosh, Margaret Gatz, Ignacio Montorio, Julie Loebach Wetherell

Author Affiliations

1: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Departamento de Psicología Biológica y de la Salud, Facultad de Psicología, Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain.

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