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The Efficiency of The Q-Sort and Other Test Designs for Measuring The Similarity Between Persons
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Parental perception of effectiveness of Q-sort methodology in measuring attachment in children with atypical behaviors
The effectiveness of the Attachment Behavior Q-Sort in measuring attachment in children with atypical behaviors was examined in this study. Data collected from interviews, structured and unstructured observation, and parental sorting of the Q-Sort by ten families provided insight about the …
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A Pilot Study to Develop a Q-Sort Set to Aid in Evaluating Instruction in Secondary Schools
<p>The purpose of this study was to develop a "Q-sort" set that would assist in the evaluation of instruction in a small high school.</p>
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Counselor Educator's Perspective on Clinical Supervision Interventions for International Counseling Students
… literature, the researcher created a Q sort that addresses what ICSs believe as helpful or could have been helpful supervision interventions on improving their professional development. The 32 CEs who participated in the present study ranked the 38 items on the Q sort based on their …
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Changes in the relationship between a delinquent's self-concept and ideal self-concept produced by intensive counseling
… self-concept and his ideal self-concept. The Q-sort was the instrument used to measure change as a result of therapy.
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An Actuarial Description of Penitentiary Inmates
The problem. The problem was to obtain Q sort statement assignments for two code types of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) profiles and compare these applications with a random sample to determine whether any patterns of differences exist and to state these differences. Procedure. …
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Food stylists’ food image creation for print media and consumer interpretation : an exploratory investigation
… behavioural intent. For this process the Q-sort method was applied in which a predetermined sample of the readership of two of South Africa‟s most eminent food magazines was involved. It is a reliable psychometric technique based on photographs that is often used in non-food related contexts …
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Retirement and Re-Entry Decision-Making: A Faculty Perspective
… work needs, and nonwork needs.</p> <p>A Q-sort was used by faculty members to sort the items measuring the six psychological factors. The Q-sort data were submitted to a cluster analytic procedure in order to determine groups of faculty sharing similar response patterns. The demographic …
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Views of Feminist Family Therapy: A Q-Methodological Inquiry
… studying their similarities and differences. A Q-sort instrument of 60 statements was constructed to sample diverse discourse on FFT. Magraw's (1992) interviews with leading experts in FFT served as a primary source for loosely structuring the Q-sort instrument into hypothesized areas of consensus …
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The Effect of Attachment on Preschooler's Emotion Understanding
… was measured by use of the Attachment Q-sort, 3.0 (Waters, 1995), while emotion understanding was assessed through use of Denham's (1986) affective perspective-taking task and interviews of children concerning naturally occurring emotions and emotion causes (Fabes et al., 1991). Results …
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Psychometric characteristics and social validity of the 3M Preschool Milestone Scale-Spanish version
… development from the teachers’ perspective. Q-sort analysis was used to identify teachers’ groups as they rated the items importance. Results indicated that the 3M scale has a strong internal consistency and social validity and has items relevant to child functional assessment.
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Are You Ready? A Proposed Framework For The Assessment Of Digital Forensic Readiness
… belong. These dimensions were subjected to a q-sort test and validated using association rules, producing a preliminary framework of DFR for practitioners. By classifying these indicators into dimensions, it was possible to distill them into 71 variables further classified into either extant or …
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Exploration des liens entre la capacité du père à ouvrir sur le monde son enfant et la qualité de la relation d'attachement père-enfant
… d'attachement a été évaluée à l'aide du Q-Sort sur l'attachement de Waters et Deane (1995), l'ouverture sur le monde a été évaluée à l'aide du QOM (Paquette et al. , 2004) et le stress parental a été évalué à l'aide de la version abrégée de l'ISP (Abidin, 1990). En ce qui concerne …
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A national study to determine the characteristics of technological literacy for high school graduates
… of the study was the Delphi Method, using the Q-Sort Technique, with the Thurstone and Chave Method of Equal Appearing Intervals. Using the Method of Equal Appearing Intervals, median scores and Q-Values were calculated for each characteristic. The 80th percentile was used to determine when a …
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Nurses’ views on compassionate care: a study using Q methodology
… onto a quasi-normal distribution grid (the Q sort). They provided post Q sort data via Report Sheets and semi-structured interviews; thematic analysis was used to explore interview data. Completed Q sorts were analysed using correlation and by-person factor analysis, resulting in two distinct …
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Quality of Attachment As a Predictor of Parental Visitation When a Young Child or Infant is Hospitalized
… attachment measure based on the Waters & Deane Q-sort, and a demographic questionnaire. The children were 10 months to 4 years old (53 males, 48 females) and were hospitalized for non-surgical illness Findings. Stepwise multiple regression analyses indicated quality of attachment and socioeconomic …
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A Study of the Differences in P Power and S Power in Three Populations: Inpatient Alcoholics, Non-Alcoholics and Alcoholics Anonymous Members
… power. The comparison of these groups on a Q sort technique developed for this study indicated that the sample of Alcoholics Anonymous members was significantly higher in the need for socialized power than either the sample of inpatient alcoholics or the sample of non-alcoholics. The level of …
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AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF ORGANIZATIONAL SECURITY RISK MANAGEMENT FOR IMPROVED EFFECTIVENESS
… of U.S. banks. In the last phase, Phase 3, the Q-sort technique was used to validate the initial directed content analysis results, which were captured as security risk management financial reported statements. The CISOs applied their experience and understanding of the CMMI-SVC RSKM model’s …
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Conservation priorities and collaboration in the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative
… interviews, a document analysis, a Q-sort, and a workshop were used in the assessment. Results show that the mixed methodology approach used to assess conservation priorities provided three overarching benefits. First, qualitative data gathered in preliminary phases of the assessment …
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Subclinical personality pathology in interpersonal situations: Assessing pathology-relevant behavior
… a modified version of the Riverside Behavioral Q-sort (Funder, Furr, & Colvin, 2000). Participants also completed a measure of borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic personality pathology. Participants’ behavior was assessed for pathology-relevant behavioral styles using several methods, …
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