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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Psychometric Scale"”.
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Developing a Psychometric Tool to Measure the Emotional Impact of Visual Content
… f irst use crowd-sourcing and a novel nine-point psychometric scale to estimate human valence responses to individual images from the OASIS image set with high reliability (split-half Spearman rank-correlation ρ = 0.95). In a separate group of human participants, we then estimate valence responses …
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Local environmental attitudes, global environmental attitudes, and religion: An analysis in 47 nations
… this dissertation includes descriptive analysis, psychometric scale evaluations, OLS regression, and multilevel modeling of data from the pooled World Values Survey/European Values Survey. Findings are mixed on the Dominion Hypothesis, but consistently support the Direct Experience and Reverence …
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The role of dispositional reinvestment in choking during decision-making tasks in sport
… complexity moderating this relationship. Next, a psychometric scale to identify individuals more susceptible to impaired decision-making under pressure was developed. A 13-item decision-specific version of the Reinvestment Scale (Masters, Polman, & Hammond, 1993) measuring an individual’s …
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TRANSITION INTO HIGHER EDUCATION: IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ACADEMIC SOCIAL IDENTITY IN PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS IMPORTANT TO ACHIEVEMENT?
… Confirmatory factor analysis (n=205). The final psychometric scale includes items designed to measure normative processes, evaluation and emotion and reflect the theoretical framework of Social Identity Theory. The final study used a multiple regression analysis with ASI predicting GPA (n=71). …
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Emotions and Multilingualism in L1 isiXhosa speakers: Measuring emotional resonance reduction using the RER-LX scale
… about the participants, and a recently published psychometric scale called the Reduced Emotional Resonance in the LX scale (RER-LX scale). The study considers data collected from a sample of 100 participants between the ages of 18 and 37 years old. The findings revealed that a variety of …
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A research-informed teaching model for undergraduate learning and research skills development using collaborative enquiry based learning
… skills development. The development of a psychometric scale is currently being undertaken to further evaluate student self-efficacy and task value following RiTe. Further research is also needed to better understand whether research activity is continued beyond registration and first post …
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Mood and advertising persuasion : a model integrating mood management and mood disruption mechanisms
… Before the main experiment was conducted, a scale was developed to measure the mood potency of an ad -- a construct developed to capture the dimensions of an ad in eliciting affective responses. Following a systematic psychometric scale-development procedure, a reliable and valid scale with …
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Promoting the political engagement of people with intellectual disabilities
… whether people voted. The first known validated psychometric scale measuring attitudes to voting by people with intellectual disabilities was developed, providing new options for future research. A survey study found that adaptations and support to enable voting were regarded as viable for both …
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Malliar Bellian Spiritual Healing from Trauma Scale: Preliminary Scale Development
… events. However, there is no single dedicated scale to assess spiritual healing from trauma. Therefore, this study aimed to develop and test a new scale preliminarily, the Malliar Bellian Spiritual Healing from Trauma (MBSHT) scale, to assess the level of spiritual healing among adults who …
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Examining the personal and societal factors that inform the development of an asexual identity: a qualitative and quantitative enquiry
… seven and nine, and confirms the absence of a psychometric scale measuring dimensions of asexual identity development. Informed by the findings of the scoping review, study two (chapter five) presents an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the accounts of five self-identified asexual …
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Sensory Processing Sensitivity: exploring associations with cognition and clinical populations
… using the 12-item Highly Sensitive Person Scale; HSP-12) and cognition in a sample of 65 older adults across three diagnostic groups: mild cognitive impairment (n = 17), early stage dementia (n = 16) and cognitively-healthy individuals (n = 23). Global cognition (MMSE scores) and executive …