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International Journal of Psychology & Behavior Analysis Volume 4 (2018), Article ID 4:IJPBA-136, 5 pages
https://doi.org/10.15344/2455-3867/2018/136
Research Article
The Japanese Translation of the Life Engagement Test: Reliability and Construct Validity in a College Student Population and a Working Adult Population

Katsunori Sumi

Nagare College, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8555, Japan
Prof. Katsunori Sumi, Nagare College, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8555, Japan; E-mail: sumi@nitech.ac.jp
24 November 2017; 17 January 2018; 18 January 2018
Sumi K (2018) The Japanese Translation of the Life Engagement Test: Reliability and Construct Validity in a College Student Population and a Working Adult Population. Int J Psychol Behav Anal 4: 136. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15344/2455-3867/2018/136
This research was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 15K04121 (https://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-grants/).
© 2018 Sumi. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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