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Confirmatory factor analysis of the collective self esteem scale
… The CSE was evaluated using item analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. According to the findings of this study the Collective Self Esteem Scale is a reliable instrument for South African use, but confirmatory factor analysis determined that it is not factorially valid. The fit indexes …
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Comparison between DINA model and confirmatory noncompensatory MIRT model
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2020-05-01
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A multi-sample confirmatory factor analysis of work-family conflict
… with either domain. Results of a multi-sample confirmatory factor analysis failed to confirm the hypothesis of construct bias or the prediction that White women would be more sensitive to work interference with family life than the reverse. The results of this study supported the prediction …
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HOW COMMUNICATION AND CONFIRMATORY STRATEGIES AFFECT THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH
… scientists and college students prefer to use confirmatory logic on simple tasks that model scientific reasoning. The only attempt to instruct subjects to use disconfirmatory reasoning failed (Mynatt, Doherty & Tweney, 1977) though subjects that falsified on their own initiative were more …
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A Confirmatory Analysis Of The Difficulties In Emotion Regulation Scale
… The purpose of this study was to perform a confirmatory factor analysis on the DERS, and to examine its predictive validity for disorders that are associated with difficulties in emotion regulation. The data for this study was collected from part of a larger study on emotion regulation. …
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Identifying the Dimensions of Integrity: A Confirmatory and Discriminant Validity Analysis
… the present investigation used item analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, discriminant validity analysis, and an analysis of social desirability to test the validity of the five integrity dimensions identified by Green (1999): Concern for Others, Conscientiousness, Emotional Control, …
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INTRAINDUSTRY INFORMATION TRANSFERS: AN ANALYSIS OF CONFIRMATORY AND CONTRADICTORY EARNINGS NEWS
… I define a firm’s earnings surprise as “confirmatory” if its sign is same as that of the majority of industry members that announced their earnings previously and as “contradictory” otherwise. I hypothesize that confirmatory earnings surprises are more informative with respect to how …
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Vietnamese Resilience Assessment: Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis for Scale Validation
… study carried out both an exploratory (EFA) and confirmatory (CFA) factor analysis using the dataset that was obtained from the results of the Healthy Student Survey-Vietnam study (HSSV; Hass et al., 2014). Specifically, the study sought out to answer the following research questions: (1) What is …
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Confirmatory research of Minsky’s financial instability hypothesis for the 1945-2017 era
… that supported the validity of FIH. This confirmatory research found evidence to suggest FIH concepts were indeed applicable to the 1945-1980s era and remained relevant to the 1990-2017 periods. This result showed that the research methodology developed can be used as an application of FIH …
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The faith and civic engagement scale: Principle components and confirmatory factor analysis
The two present studies ran an exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis on the Perceptions and Expectations section of the Faith and Civic Engagement (FACE) scale, which identified common themes and thus created a new, more concise measure designed for use by colleges and universities. The new …
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A confirmatory factor analytic comparison of the Test of Everyday Attention for Children
… population in question. This study included a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of the TEA-Ch on a U.S. sample of 158 children without identified attention problems and comparisons of demographic data. Analysis of the data revealed significant differences in TEA-Ch performance between age …
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Defining the Construct of Malingered PTSD in Civil Litigation: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis
… SIMS, M-FAST, TSI-2 ATR and TOMM). Utilizing confirmatory factor analyses, the present study aimed to delineate the underlying factor structure of malingered PTSD by comparing measures of goodness-of-fit across three hypothesized latent factor models. Hypothesized models included (1) a single, …
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A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of WRAML Scores in a Group of Academically Talented Students
… from the Differential Aptitude Test (DAT). The confirmatory factor analysis found the data obtained to not be a good fit for the factor structure of the WRAML (Sheslow & Adams, 1990). Additional confirmatory analyses were conducted which examined data fit of a three factor model found by …
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Treatment Matching in PTSD: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis Based On Therapeutic Mechanisms of Action
The current study takes an initial step toward deriving a method for empirically based, theory-driven treatment matching in a military population suffering from PTSD. Along with the more overt symptoms of PTSD (e.g., persistent hyperarousal), secondary cognitive symptoms have also been shown to be …
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A comparison of confirmatory factor analysis and task analysis of fluid intelligence cognitive subtests
… fluid reasoning subtests that were subjected to confirmatory factor analyses to analysis subtest similarities. Second, school psychology practitioners (N = 32) sorted subtest descriptions into similarity groups. Their judgments were analyzed with multiple non-hierarchical cluster analyses. …
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Development of confirmatory testing strategies for suspect false PRRS-positive reactors in diagnostic serology
… in comparison to ELISA 2XR kit to establish a confirmatory testing algorithm when suspect false positive (SFP) results occur in ELISA 2XR. All assays showed excellent performance on experimental samples, meaning that all tests are valid for specific and sensitive detection of the target …
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Selecting an Optimal Measurement Model and Detecting Differential Item Functioning Using Bayesian Confirmatory Factor Analysis
I investigated the sampling behavior of DIC and WAIC in the context of selecting an optimal measurement model in Bayesian SEM, as well as the utility of highly constrained parameter estimates in detecting differential item functioning (DIF). I assessed the relative efficiency of WAIC compared to …
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Investigation of the Effects of Environmental Insults on Presumptive and Confirmatory Tests and DNA Degradation
… insults affect the efficacy of presumptive and confirmatory tests and can have a direct impact on the quality and quantity of amplifiable DNA present. However, little published data exists detailing the empirical effects of environmental insults on presumptive and confirmatory tests. Some …
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