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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"Quantitative psychology"”.
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Equivalence Tests For Repeated Measures
Equivalence tests from the null hypothesis significance testing framework are appropriate alternatives to difference tests for demonstrating lack of difference. For determining equivalence among more than two repeated measurements, recently developed equivalence tests include the omnibus Hotelling …
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Examining Construct Stability Across Career Stage Cohorts
<p>The purpose of this study is to evaluate construct stability of the same certification test taken at different points in a test taker's career, taking into account changes is experience over time. A single medical certification exam administration was used to analyze the construct stability of …
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Psychometric Properties of a Multichannel Battery for the Assessment of Emotional Perception
<p>Perceiving the emotions of others is an important, even critical, skill for success in social interactions. The lack of this skill has been associated with decreased social competence and poor interpersonal relationships (Shimokawa et al., 2001). It frequently co-occurs with psychopathology.</p> …
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Examining factors associated with faking-good responding on the Child Abuse Potential Inventory
Child maltreatment (e.g., physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect) remains a serious public health issue which affects an estimated 19% of victims in the United States (Fang, Brown, Florence, & Mercy, 2013; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2010), and therefore, it …
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Examining the Painful and Provocative Events Scale and Testing the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicidal Behavior in Undergraduates and Cyberbullying Victims
Suicide is a leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Individuals are hypothesized to acquire the capability for suicide through the experiencing of painful and provocative events. The primary purpose of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the Painful and …
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Receiver Operating Characteristics of the CAP Lie Scale and Correlates of Impression Management in Parenting Capacity Evaluations
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the validity and reliability of the Child Abuse Potential L scale with a heterogeneous sample of caregivers referred for parenting capacity evaluations. One aim of the study was to assess the measurement properties of the L scale. A second aim was …
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Using instructed response times to compare inattentive responding across paper and online modalities: measuring research participant inattention
<p>It is important to examine the equivalence of paper and online data collection methods across several domains. The current study compared paper versus online modalities from a data quality standpoint, with a specific focus on inattentive (i.e., careless) responding by using an easily-implemented …
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Relations between measures of attention and memory in the assessment of children with attentional difficulties
Attentional difficulties are associated with a number of different pediatric clinical disorders, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), learning disabilities (LD), and traumatic brain injury (TBI). Further, two cognitive functions dependent upon attention, learning and memory, …
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Neuropsychological assessment of Spanish-speaking populations: translations and norms for three tests
Increasing demand for neuropsychological assessment of the growing population of Spanish-speakers in the United States has necessitated the development of culturally appropriate measures of cognitive functioning. Previously, the use of literal translations, untrained interpreters, and …
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Psychometric properties of the Social Interactions Questionnaire (SIQ) in an older adult sample
This study examined the psychometric properties of the Social Interactions Questionnaire (SIQ; Kalish & Edelstein, 1996), a quick and efficient tool to measure negative social interactions. Overwhelming evidence has emerged over the past decade indicating that negative social interactions (NSIs) …
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Validation of the Resilience Competencies Scale (RCS) for Applications among American Indian Youth
Historical trauma, poverty, educational inequalities, and discrimination are among the many factors contributing to current problems, such as substance abuse, experienced by some American Indian youth today. Much of the literature on American Indian adolescents has been problem-focused; but it is …
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Development of the Inventory of Life Span Events
<p>The possible relationship between stressful life events and subsequent illness has been studied in the past few decades, resulting in several widely-used questionnaires. However, these measures tend to focus on recent events and attempt to remove subjective rating of a stressful event by the …
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Development and validation of an instrument to measure the concept of occupational intimacy in relation to physician job satisfaction
The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an instrument that measured the concept Occupational Intimacy. This instrument explored the hypothesized components of Occupational Intimacy: nurturing environment, love of work and meaningful work. A convenience sample of 380 physicians who …
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ASSESSMENT OF NEUROTENSIN RECEPTOR AGONIST EFFECTS ON FEAR-POTENTIATED STARTLE
<p>Systemic administration of the NTS<sub>1</sub> receptor agonist PD149163 has exhibited anxiolytic effects in male rats. The present study sought to further evaluate the potential anxiolytic effects of PD149163 by assessing this compound in both male and female C57BL/J6 mice using the …
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Toward a Model of Team Situation Awareness
… paper explored and compared several methods for quantitatively assessing SA. Results indicate that one measure of SA, SALIENT (Muniz et al, 1997) has the best measurement characteristics. Model testing revealed that all models put forth fit the data adequately, but the summation model yielded the …
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Using Robust Standard Errors to Combine Multiple Regression Estimates with Meta-Analysis
<p>Combining multiple regression estimates with meta-analysis has continued to be a difficult task. A variety of methods have been proposed and used to combine multiple regression slope estimates with meta-analysis, however, most of these methods have serious methodological and practical …
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Patient-Technique Orientation, Personality Factors, and Training Effects in Nursing Students
<p>The purpose of this study was to determine if nursing students could be differentiated along a patient-technique nursing orientation continuum, and whether there would be a shift in the orientation of student nurses subsequent to participating in a training program for nurses. This study …
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The Embodied Causal Learner
<p>Traditionally, cognitive psychology has assumed a disembodied learner and thinker. However, an emerging approach known as embodiment posits that seemingly irrelevant motor or perceptual aspects of a task can affect higher-level cognition. The findings from such embodiment studies have also been …
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