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Factorial Validity of a Rating Instrument
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Factorial Validity of the Team Skills Scale as used for Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training (GITT)
<p>Objective: To examine the factorial validity of the Team Skills Scale (TSS). The TSS is a 17-item scale developed by Hepburn, Tsukuda, and Fasser (1996). The Scale is purported to assess self-perceived team skills.Data Source: Data for this study were provided by The New York University …
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School Engagement: Testing the Factorial Validity, Measurement, Structural and Latent Means Invariance between African American and White Students
… to test for invariance of the measurement and factorial structures of school engagement across white and African-American students. And the third objective of the study was to test for invariance of the latent mean structures of school engagement across white and African-American students. In …
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FUNCTIONS UNDERLYING PERFORMANCE OF LEARNING-DISABLED CHILDREN IN INTELLIGENCE AND NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS.
This study was designed to determine the factorial validity of specific components of the Reitan-Indiana Neuropsychological Battery with a learning disabled population. Scores of 42 children, 38 males, 4 females, ages 6.2 to 8.8 years were compiled on specific tests of the Reitan-Indiana. Principal …
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Instrument development and validation for use in a health education program
This study was conducted to establish the validity and reliability of a dependent measure instrument developed specifically for health education programs geared to expectant mothers and their significant others who smoke; This study's instrument was distributed to 201 randomly chosen college …
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The Factorial and Concurrent Validity of the Dimensions of Self-Concept Measure (Form H) with a Sample of Graduate and Undergraduate Students across the United States.
… that examines the construct and concurrent validity of the academic self-concept measure, Dimensions of Self-Concept (Form H), for college level students. By utilizing a sample of 429 undergraduate and graduate students from across the United States, this study provides supplemental …
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Preliminary Validation of a Native American Food Safety Knowledge Survey
… analyzed using inter-rater agreement, content validity index, and factorial validity index. A culturally appropriate, content valid, and reliable survey for Native American primary food handlers with children under the age of ten was created to collect national data on food safety knowledge of …
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A survey of worker participation in Bophuthatswana
… the original dimensions were found to have some factorial validity. These three scales were subjected to an item analysis to establish their internal consistency. The biographical data in the questionnaire and the three scales were subjected to a correlation study and a regressional analysis to …
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Understanding Bullying Participant Roles: Stability across School Years and Personality and Behavioral Correlates
<p>This study investigated the factorial validity, stability, and social, behavioral and emotional correlates of several different roles that students can play in the context of bullying. Data were collected from students at two time points across two school years, April and May of 2006 (n=284) and …
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Identification Of Stimulant Misuse And Malingering Of Symptoms Of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
… the SAMS, with satisfactory reliability and factorial validity. The third paper calculated a cut-off score for the SAMS, and estimated a sensitivity of 90.3% and a specificity of 80.1% toward malingering of ADHD symptoms. This dissertation pursued innovative methods to help in the early …
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A Factorial Analysis of School-Related Subjective Well-Being Among A Sample of Adolescents
… factor analysis was conducted to analyze the factorial validity of three and four-part models of school-related SWB in a sample of 921 adolescents. In addition, the invariance of the structure was examined across gender. Results indicated that a four-factor model comprised of positive affect, …
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Understanding the schooling and literacy beliefs, behaviors, and self-efficacy of early head start parents using confirmatory factor analysis: A pilot survey study
… or eliminated to increase content and criterion validity? These methods resulted in a 34-item survey that was further analyzed for factorial validity and reliability during a pilot survey. Analysis of the pilot survey was used to answer the second research question: What is the best fit model to …
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Not to be Taken Out of Context: The Development and Validation of a Contextualized Measure of Leader Personality
… of a personality measure improves its criterion validity for context-congruent criteria (Shaffer & Postlethwaite, 2012). The continued interest in the application of personality to leadership research and practice (Day & Antonakis, 2012; Hogan & Kaiser, 2005; Judge, Piccolo, & Kosalka, 2009), …
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Validation of the Daily Spiritual Experience Scale in a group of black South African students
… reliability of the DSES; to investigate factorial validity of the DSES; and to investigate the convergent and discriminant validity of the DSES within a black South African student population. A literature review was done to become familiar with the theoretical conceptualisation of the …
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Beyond homophobia: development and validation of the Gay Affirmative Practice Scale (GAP)
… a pool of experts to assess the items’ content validity, 3) administration of the behavioral domain to assess which of two response sets yielded the greatest variability in responses, and 4) administration of the scale to clinicians to assess the reliability and validity of the instrument. The …
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Nurses' Spiritual Care Practices: Assessment, Type, Frequency, and Correlates
… Spiritual Care Practice Questionnaire (NSCQ). Factorial validity and reliability of the pilot NSCQ were established. Spiritual care practices most frequently endorsed were assessing patients' spiritual beliefs pertaining to health and listening to patients' stories of illness and their …
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Goal Orientation: A test of competing models
This research examined the validity of the 2-factor (e.g., Button, Mathieu, and Zajac, 1996) and 3-factor (e.g., VandeWalle, 1997) models of goal orientation. These models differ in specifying the dimensionality, measurement, and nomological network for learning goal orientation and performance …
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The reliability and validity of ipsative and normative forms of the Hutchins Behavior Inventory
… consistency procedures. Construct-related validity was investigated using four procedures: internal consistency analysis of HBI-N scores; factor analysis of the items comprising the scales of the HBI-N; an analysis of a multitrait-multimethod validity matrix containing scores from the …
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The Elements of Governance and Their Association with Aviation Safety Oversight Effectiveness
… of the study include the added support for the factorial validity of the WGI structure for RQ and GE and the establishment of a framework linking broader dimensions of governance and aviation safety oversight, particularly between GE and EI. Practical contributions include recommendations for …
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Identifying the Behavioural and Psychophysiological Indicators of Mentally Tough Athletes
… of rRST in Hardy et al.’s study by examining the factorial validity of the six-factor Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory Personality Questionnaire (RST-PQ). Utilising a technically complex, alternative statistical approach in Bayesian structural equation modelling (BSEM), analyses supported the …