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Showing 1 to 20 of 145 for “"Cronbach's alpha"”.
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Summated Scale Construction: Development of the Inventory of Professional Competencies (Ipc)
… The pilot test in stage III yielded a Cronbach's alpha of .97, stage IV yielded a Cronbach's alpha of .95, and stage V yielded a Cronbach's alpha of .96. Further, the final scale administration yielded strong validity when compared to the Inventory of Professional Functioning, showing …
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The Development and Psychometric Testing of a Hypertension Knowledge Instrument in a Vulnerable Population
… and hypertension-related outcomes.</p> <p>The Cronbach's alpha for the original hypertension knowledge instrument was 0.597. Using results from the item analysis and the exploratory factor analysis, the refined instrument produced a Cronbach's alpha of 0.598. A three-factor solution was …
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Determining the effects on parental attitudes and parenting styles towards child rearing after participation in a rural parenting program
… Settlement House in Morgantown, West Virginia.;Cronbach's alphas were run on all measures with high reliability found on all except the program content measure. Cronbach's alpha for the attitudes reflecting authoritarianism and warmth ranged from .76 to .79. Cronbach's alphas for the three …
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Examination of the Reliability and Validity of the Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale (ATSPPHS) among Jamaican Americans
… a demographic information form. An estimate of Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient for the overall ATSPPHS, and the four attitudinal factors were calculated to determine reliability. Principal components analysis was utilized to examine the structure of the factors and validity. An …
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Sense of place and student engagement among undergraduate students at a major public research university
… instrument (n = 358) and yielded 13 factors with Cronbach's alpha ranging from 0.57 for High Impact Practices to 0.92 for Sense of Place. Cronbach's alpha for overall instrument was 0.93. A statistically significant correlation was found between sense of place and student engagement (r(413) = .43, …
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Self-efficacy as a predictor of attrition for African-American and White client populations in treatment for poly-drug abuse
… an item-total correlation ranging from.58 to.81. Cronbach's alpha was.98. Test-retest reliability was high with r (46) =.612. The adapted instrument showed internal consistency and reliability equal to or even slightly greater than the one from which it was developed.
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Self-efficacy expectations and functional ability in everyday activities in clients undergoing total knee arthroplasty
… perform activities required for discharge home. Cronbach's alpha for the self-efficacy scale was .94 (pre-education) and .81 (post-education). Functional ability in everyday activities was operationalized as length of hospital stay, discharge placement, and perceived health status. Perceived …
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The Relationship Between Leadership Level and Preference for Administrative Interview Questions
… survey, was established through the use of Cronbach's Alpha. The full scale survey instrument was determined reliable with Cronbach's Alpha at .96. Each subscale of the instrument was also deemed to demonstrate internal consistency above the .70 level. ANOVA was used to determine whether …
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Validation of the Utian quality of life scale in peri- and postmenopausal women in the metro west region of Cape Town
… answers (p-value < 0.05). Internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha) was >0.7 for the occupational domain of the UQOL only. The health, emotional, and sexual domains had alpha values of 0.673 and 0.691 and 0.634 respectively, which are acceptable. The Cronbach's alpha for the health domain improved …
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Exploring the psychometric properties of the newly-developed Undergraduate Nursing Student Academic Satisfaction Scale
… internal consistency reliability with a Cronbach's alpha of .92 for the In-Class Teaching factor, .91 for Clinical Teaching, .91 for The Program, .74 for the Support and Resources and .96 for the entire scale. The test-retest coefficient ranged from .70 to .86.
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Developing and testing a "responsibility" questionnaire for 8th graders
… of attitude.;Internal consistency tests showed Cronbach's Alpha to be .834 for the entire questionnaire, .752 for the questions measuring behavior and .637 for the questions measuring attitude. Internal consistency tests should be repeated with additional pilot groups to obtain further evidence …
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Nurse caring behaviors as perceived by the emergency room nurse and the emergency room patient: A comparative study
… with a significance level set at p =.05. Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient for the CBA tool was.96. It is important that nurses become aware of what patients perceive as caring behaviors and how these perceptions differ from their own. ThiS awareness is one of the first steps to …
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Perceptions of banned drugs in athletics in relation to sport participation, gender, and socioeconomic status
… To scale reliability and construct validity, Cronbach's alpha coefficients were obtained and a principal components factor analysis with varimax rotation was run. Findings revealed weak Cronbach alpha coefficients, and discrepancies related to factor loading. Two 2 x 2 MANOVAs (gender/sport …
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Miblsi program evaluuation of participatory elementary schools from 2003-20009
… found no differences among the domains (NS). The Cronbach's alpha (CA) test for internal consistency results show that item deletion via reanalysis of CA (meaning if the item is deleted the reliability increases,) and 26 standards were retained to conduct the CA and the value obtained was .600.</p>
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Health-promoting Behaviors of Adults Who Attend Nurse-managed Cardiac Risk Screening Clinics in the Rural Midwest
… in health-promotion activities. The Cronbach's alpha for the study was 0.91.<br> Major findings of this investigation included evidence of a significant relationship between the variables of age, perceived health status and perceived healthy lifestyle and the individual's …
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Child Friendliness of Restaurants: A Pilot Study
… scale, measuring overall kid friendliness, the Cronbach's alpha = 0.937. Future research can expand on this survey instrument to include more participants testing for reliability and validity per Churchill's (1979) Instrument Development Steps.
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Impact of the Accounting Education Change Commission's Recommendations on Accounting Instruction
… surveys were returned, 146 were usable. Using Cronbach's alpha, the reliability of the overall Accounting Instruction Change Scale, as determined by the pilot study, was .92. Reliability, using the Cronbach's alpha, for the final study data was .91. Significant differences were found between …
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The Experienced Self and Other Scale: A technique for assaying the experience of one's self in relation to the other
… The internal consistency was determined using Cronbach's alpha coefficient for each subscale from the factor analysis. Bivariate correlations, as well as multiple linear regression analyses, were used to assess the relationship between the E-SOS and other measures. Three hundred and …
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Health-related Quality of Life One Year After Coronary Angioplasty and/or Coronary Stenting
… treatment satisfaction, and disease perception. Cronbach's alpha for the SF-36 subscales ranged fi-om 0.73 to 0.91; while the Cronbach's alpha of the SAQ subscales ranged from 0.58 to 0.89.<br> A descriptive, comparative design was used to: (a) describe and determine if there was a difference in …
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Church Organizational Culture: Construct Definition and Instrument Development
… for internal consistency reliability using Cronbach's Alpha, and for content validity using an online survey of the expert panel. While the original instrument did not pass statistical tests for validity and reliability, the study yielded a definition for the new construct of church …
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