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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Measure development"”.
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Unexpected Work Intrusions into Employees' Personal Lives: Investigation, Measure Development, and Exploration of Causes and Consequences
… work home), 3) develop and validate new episodic measures of work intrusions and three aspects of unplanned nonwork-to-work role switching (frequency, mental difficulty, and physical effort), and 4) begin developing a nomological net of antecedent and outcomes variables surrounding the construct. …
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Parametric cost estimation utilizing development-to-production cost relationship applied to the advanced amphibious assault vehicle
This thesis examines the relationship between development unit cost and production unit cost. Historical data from seven armored tracked vehicle programs is used to test the relationship. A study of this relationship is useful when production has not begun and the estimator wants a means to …
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Creating Individual Behavior Change Through 360-Degree Feedback: A Development Pipeline Perspective
… for understanding how efforts toward individual development are restricted. To do this, I used a new 360-degree feedback instrument called “Time 2 Change” that measures self, manager, direct report, and peer/colleague perceptions of change in the individual. This instrument also measures the …
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Development and initial validation of the family eating and activity questionnnaire
… however, there is a lack of assessment tools to measure these behaviors. The purpose of the current study was to develop a psychometrically sound, parent-report measure of family and child behaviors related to obesity in children between 5- and 12- years-old. Item generation, item selection, and …
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Development and Validation of a Survey of Knowledge of Autism Spectrum Disorder
… goal of this study was to create a standard measure to evaluate perceived versus actual knowledge of ASD. A sample of undergraduate students was administered A Survey of Knowledge of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASK-ASD), as well as a measure of knowledge of ADHD and a measure of knowledge of …
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Inequality and International Human Trafficking Flows: A Network Analysis
… country scores. I use five indicators that measure development, economic health, and political health across 183 countries in the international system. These indicators have been broadly used in the literature to provide explanation for other societal problems like crime, political conflict, …
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Assessing Career Decision-Making Status: The CASVE Cycle Questionnaire
… progress in the CASVE cycle. A multi-phase development process was utilized, which included: initial item development, review by the current targeted demographic (i.e., college students), expert review, measure pilot, and measure administration with item refinement at each of the first three …
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Integrating Relational Perspectives into Strategic Human Resource Management: Three Papers on Strategic Relational Human Resource Management
… in the first two chapters, Chapter 3 develops a measure of strategic relational HRM following a rigorous procedure of measure development. This study underscores the importance of employees’ relational competencies as the micro-foundation of human capital and argues that strategic relational HRM …
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Coping and Adjustment in Child Cancer Survivors: An Investigation into Spirituality as a Predictor of Psychosocial Outcomes
… study sought to: (a) develop a preliminary child measure of spiritual coping, and (b) to employ this assessment tool in an empirical investigation of the relationship between spiritual coping and psychosocial adjustment in the childhood cancer population. This investigation included 55 child …
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Modeling Social Participation as Predictive of Life Satisfaction and Social Support: Scale or Index?
… of different types of activities are used to measure social participation, conventional measure development procedures based on classical test theory lead to a proliferation of small participation subscales that don't show good reliability, don't have theoretical power, and don't match …
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Who's Doing the Dirty Work? Development and Preliminary Validation of a Measure of Housework
… second phase examined the validity of the new measure by testing a set of hypotheses while also exploring gender differences related to various dimensions of housework. Phase two consisted of 103 couple participants in which both partners were working at least 20 hours per week and shared a …
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Assessing health-related quality of life in people with aphasia
Background: Health related quality of life (HRQL) measures are becoming increasingly used in the evaluation of health care interventions. They allow us to better understand the impact of disease on a patient's life as a whole and to incorporate the patient's perspective in clinical decision making …
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Childhood Obesity and the Home Environment
… treat childhood obesity, there is a paucity of measurement tools available to provide a comprehensive assessment of the home physical and social environment as it pertains to physical activity and dietary intake. This dissertation includes: (1) a mixed-methods study to determine the feasibility …