A Factor Analysis of the Social Problem-Solving Inventory using Polychoric Correlations

1The participation of Albert Maydeu-Olivares in this research was supported by a Fulbright-La Caixa scholarship. Parts of this paper were performed by the first author as part of his doctoral dissertion at the University of Barcelona, directed by Juana Gómez Benito.

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