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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"General Factor"”.
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Deciphering the general factor in interest measures: response style or attitude
Unrotated factor analyses of interest data have consistently yielded a general factor of interests, an overarching factor with uniformly high loadings across interest subscales and individual items. The theoretical significance of this general factor of interest is still debated. In this paper, we …
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What is common may be as important as what is different: examining the general factor shared by dispositional shame and guilt using bi-factor models
… studies, we addressed this issue by employing bi-factor models to examine the general factor shared by shame and guilt, and its relationship to several important personality traits and two broad liability factors of psychopathology (i.e., externalizing and internalizing psychopathology). As …
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Working memory and human reasoning : an individual differences approach
… verbal and visual modalities. The confirmatory factor analysis showed that three factors best accounted for the data -a verbal, a spatial, and a general resource. All the span tasks and most of the reasoning tasks significantly and consistently loaded the general factor. Experiments 4-6 …
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A Revisitation of the WISC-R Factor Structure with Adequate Sample Size, Systematic Control of Both IQ and Age Ranges, and the Use of Procedures to Limit Overfactorization
… the problem of inconsistency in the results of factor-analytic studies of the WISC-R by performing analyses where age and size of Full Scale IQ ranges were held constant, and by using adequate sample sizes.</p> <p>Methodology. Factor analyses were performed on the WISC-R scale scores. Principal …
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VOCATIONAL INTERESTS: CONSTRUCT VALIDITY AND MEASUREMENT
… interests, and sexual fantasies in defining a general factor of Masculinity/Femininity (M/F) (Study 1), (b) the validity of a new measure of vocational interests (Study 2), and (c) the individual difference characteristics that discriminate between students in various academic majors, and that …
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Generalized Principal Component Analysis
… The result of these extensions is called the Generalized principal component analysis (GPCA). The GPCA is illustrated using both Monte Carlo simulations as well as an empirical study, in an attempt to demonstrate the enhanced reliability of these more general factor models in the context of …
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Predicting Weight Loss in Post Surgical Laparoscopic Banding Patients
… the efficacy of profiles derived from the three factors of the Eating Inventory® test (EI) - cognitive restraint, disinhibition, and hunger - to predict successful weight loss in post surgical laparoscopic banding patients at 6 and 9 months post surgery. Although the EI is commonly used in …
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A Treatise of PD-LGD Correlation Modelling
… underlying framework. This thesis presents a general factor PD-LGD correlation model within the conditional independence framework, where obligors’ defaults are conditional on a common state of affairs in the economy. We highlight a mistake that is frequently made in specifying loss given …
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A Study of the Relationship of Socioeconomic Status & Student Perceptions of School Effectiveness to Academic Achievement of Engineering Students
… students. The variables representing the general factor of socioeconomic status were 1) father’s occupation, 2) father’s schooling, 3) mother’s schooling, 4) family income, and 5) family’s community population. The variables representing student perceptions of school effectiveness were: 1) …
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Validation of the motivational inventory underlying substance use engagement (MI-USE)
… were conducted to discover and validate the factor structure of the MI-USE and evaluate its construct validity. A 30-item model best fit the MI-USE, with one General Factor capturing overall motivation to engage in substance use and eight motive-specific factors that indexed unique …
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Return to work following a sick leave
… return to work after sick leave, and the general factor when the return to work process does not work. This research concludes that large organizations are more likely to have a return to work policy in place and follow it through. Their policy was consistent with what the literature …
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Investigating the Domain of Geometric Inductive Reasoning Problems: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis
… topic due to its claimed relationship with the general factor of intelligence. In this research, four subabilities were identified: working memory, rule induction, rule application, and figure detection. This quantitative study examined the relationship between these four subabilites and …
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Psychometric Properties of a Multichannel Battery for the Assessment of Emotional Perception
… subtests) is strongly determined by a general factor of emotion perception ability. Individual identification subtests often display a moderately strong second factor, but are still good measures of general emotional perception ability. Analysis of hierarchical grouping of the battery's …
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The Parameterized Complexity of Degree Constrained Editing Problems
… degree constrained editing problems, WDCE, which generalises several well know problems, such as Degree r Deletion, Cubic Subgraph, r-Regular Subgraph, f-Factor and General Factor. We show that in general if both k and r are part of the parameter, problems in the WDCE class are fixed-parameter …
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The Intended Heroic Behavior Scale: Creation and Validity of a Scale Predicting Heroism to Advance Developmental Research on Heroes
… 3, I performed item reduction and exploratory factor analysis to uncover the smallest number of items that would account for the most variance, as well as measuring correlations showing evidence of discriminant and convergent validity. In Study 4, I performed confirmatory factor analysis to …
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Examining a Three-Dimensional Model of Competitive State Anxiety in Sport
… used in previous studies and developed the Three Factor Anxiety Inventory-2 (TFAI-2) by examining the factor structure of possible bifactor models using Bayesian structural equation modelling (BSEM). Two different participant samples provided support for a bifactor model with five specific factors …
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Investigating the Role of Prior Expectations in the Psychosis Continuum
… are frequently used to advance a theory for a generalised altered reliance on priors in the psychosis continuum. This is problematic since studies often present conflicting results. Recent studies have suggested that paradoxical findings may be explained by the existence of a hierarchy of …
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Conducta suicida y adolescencia en contextos educativos
… as a useful measure for !he assessmenl of a general factor of suicida! behavior and three specific factors (Suicida! AcVPlanning, Communicalion and ldeation). On the other hand, between 4% and 15% of !he adolescents responded affirmalively in al leas! one item of !he scale; in lhis sense, …
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White matter connectivity, cognition, symptoms and genetic risk factors in Schizophrenia
… due to the genetic overlap shared among these factors. This work investigates the psychopathology of schizophrenia from a neurobiological, psychological and genetic perspective. The datasets used here include data from the Scottish Family Mental Health (SFMH) study, the Lothian Birth Cohort …
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Understanding mental health treatment effectiveness in young people
… worldwide, with distress emerging as a common factor among such disorders. Most lifetime mental disorders emerge during adolescence and young adulthood, yet no studies have robustly assessed changes in common distress over time during this broad developmental epoch. Common distress is …
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