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Showing 1 to 20 of 195 for “"Scale Development"”.
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Allyship Readiness Scale Development and Validation
… developing and validating the Allyship Readiness Scale (ARS), a theoretically grounded and psychometrically robust instrument designed to assess the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral dimensions of allyship readiness. Drawing from Social Identity Theory (Tajfel, 1974), training needs assessment …
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Measurement of attitudes toward counseling : scale development
… Beliefs and Evaluations About Counseling Scale (BEACS), based on social psychological theories of attitudes, including the Multiattribute Model of Attitudes (MMA) and the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA). Applying a MMA formula, two scales (beliefs and evaluations) linked with the BEACS …
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Medical tasks self-efficacy : initial scale development
… their occupational field of choice. The typical scales utilized in assessing career self efficacy are generalized across occupations and not relevant to someone who was already employed in a profession. The purpose of the present study was to develop a new scale, Medical Tasks Self-Efficacy …
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The Multidimensional Interpersonal Dependency Inventory: Scale Development
Current inventories of interpersonal trait dependency are problematic because they are based on theories that fail to recognize the positive aspects of dependency. The main goal of this thesis was to develop a new inventory that takes into account theoretical advances using Robert Bornstein's …
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Employee nonwork support-marshaling: scale development and validation
… aimed to develop and validate a self-report scale to measure the behaviors that employees perform in order to manage the support they receive from supervisors for nonwork issues. Specifically, the scale draws on support-marshaling literature to capture direct and indirect behaviors that are …
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African American relationship schema scale: Development and validation
… to validate a Relationship Schema Scale for African American women, RSS-AA. The RSS-AA was also found to be meaningfully related to self-esteem and depression, factors that are independently related to safer sex behavior.</p>
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Technology or customer orientations: theory and scale development
… the framework. Specifically, a measurement scale to assess the extent to which a firm or a business corresponds to a particular archetype is developed. Tests of reliability and validity are conducted. The results indicate in four clearly defied factors that correspond to the archetypes in the …
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Workplace Generativity: Construct and Scale Development with Validation
… reflects the motivation to invest in the development of others, ensuring the continuity and success of future generations. People tend to be generative where they invest their time—whether in the family, community, belief system, or workplace—as a means of improving the future for both the …
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Cognitive processes associated with creativity : scale development and validation
… Processes Associated with Creativity (CPAC) scale was developed to efficiently and directly address the processes of brainstorming, metaphorical and analogical thinking, perspective-taking, imagery, incubation, and flow. An online pilot study (n = 226) and laboratory follow-up study (n = 120) …
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Trust and Distrust Scale Development: Operationalization and Instrument Validation
<p>Trust and distrust have been studied at great length by researchers in the field of information systems and various other fields over the past few decades without reaching consensus on conceptualization and measurement. The goal of this study was to determine if individual trust and distrust are …
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In vivo imaging and morphogenesis of butterfly scale development
… of a butterfly sprout hundreds of thousands of scales with intricate micro- and nanostructures that determine the wings' optical appearance, wetting characteristics, thermodynamic properties, and aerodynamic behavior. This strategy—of enabling multifunctionality by controlling material structure …
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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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Evaluating Attitudes toward Women's Sports: A scale development and validation study
… instrument Attitude toward Women's Sports (ATWS) Scale' to measure attitude toward women's sports, and seek various validity and reliability evidences for the instrument. First, item pool of ATWS scale was reviewed by subject matter experts to collect evidence on content validity of the instrument …
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PERCEPTIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CONTINUITY: SCALE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLICATIONS FOR ORGANIZATIONAL OUTCOMES
… intentions. In order to test this proposition, a scale was developed that measured an individual’s POC within their organization with regards to the organization’s culture and history. A survey was distributed among working individuals that contained the new measure of POC and other established …
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Competitive personality and work outcomes: A meta-analysis and scale development
… factor analysis. This effort also entails the development of the Competitive Personality Scale, a brief scale that reflects the essential content of the trait. Fourth, I establish the nomological validity of competitive personality vis-à-vis other personality traits, job attitudes, work …
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Obsessive Compulsive Self-Syntonicity of Symptoms Scale: Development, Reliability and Validity
… consequences. The current study describes the development, reliability, and validity of a new scale — the Obsessive Compulsive Self-Syntonicity of Symptoms Scale (OCSSSS) - that measures the positive and negative functional consequences of OC symptoms. Items were generated by the principal …
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Teacher social justice advocacy for children: a scale development and preliminary validity
… to develop the Teacher Social Justice Advocacy Scale (TSJAS) to measure teachers' social justice advocacy orientation, as well as provide support for the validity and reliability of the self-report instrument. Six hundred and seven K-12 teachers in the United States participated in the …
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The Feminine Gender Role Stress Scale: Development, Factor Analysis, and Preliminary Validation
… the psychometric properties of the FGRS scale were investigated. Women scored higher on FGRS than men and scores among women showed good two week testretest reliability. The tendency to appraise situations on the FGRS scale as stressful was moderately associated with the tendency to …
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