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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"measurement development"”.
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RESISTANCE TO CULTURAL SEXUAL OBJECTIFICATION: MEASUREMENT DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOMETRIC EVALUATION.
… of oppression, the current study surrounds development and validation of a quantitative measurement tool centered on resistance to sociocultural beauty ideals and physical standards of appearance. Theoretical reviews, focus group interviews (n =33), and expert feedback formed the basis for …
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Performance Anxiety in Sport: Revisiting the Process Goal Paradox and Measurement Development
… the thesis examined issues associated with the measurement of performance anxiety. The aims of the thesis were to: (a) establish further support for the efficacy of holistic process goals over part process goals, (b) investigate athletes' cognitive anxiety responses to a stressful event, and (c) …
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Psychotherapy Task-Based Assessment of Therapists' Multicultural Orientation: A Measurement Development Study
<p>Multicultural competencies (MCCs) have laid the foundation for therapists and researchers to strongly consider culture as an important factor in psychotherapy. More recently, Owen (2013) developed the multicultural orientation framework (MCO) to better explicate the MCCs for psychotherapy. The …
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Applying the theory of planned behaviour to walking : development and evaluation of measures and an intervention
… the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) to the development and evaluation of a TPB measure of walking cognitions and an intervention to encourage walking behaviour. Study one (N=10) used interpretative phenomenological analysis to provide a rich and detailed account of walking in which …
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Development of a Methodology for Assessing Military Team Processes
… individual team processes. This study begins the measurement development cycle by developing a tool that uses direct observation to collect data on team processes. The tool was then tested in a battle simulation being used as a C2 training exercise. The study showed that (1) the team process …
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Fibromyalgia Self-Care Management: Use of Essential Oils
… management, impact on functional status and measurement development.
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What makes control coercive?
… knowledge gained from this study can inform measurement development for assessing coercive control and be applied to healthcare and legal interventions to address diverse experiences of control and violence.
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Engagement in community-based day centres for people with psychiatric disabilities
… with psychiatric disabilities and contributes to measurement development in the area of occupational engagement. The first study focused on the characteristics of the occupations carried out at the day centre by exploring occupational engagement using time-use diaries with a …
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The construction of shame and pride among sexual minority adolescents: A mixed-methods study
… emotions are important to understanding identity development and well-being among sexual minority adolescents. However, little empirical research has been conducted to understand the influence these emotions have on this population. To better test these propositions, a theoretical framework and …
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Beyond the Margins of the Model Minority: The Development and Validation of the East Asian American Situational Judgment Test
… outcomes. The availability of different types of measurement tools such as the EAA-SJT may allow researchers to better understand prejudicial attitudes towards Asian Americans.
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Mobile device acceptance in nursing education
… educational tools. The MDA model also guides the measurement development and psychometrics testing for the MDA constructs in order to understand mobile device use and to examine correlates in the nursing student population. The study included variables that measure diversity including students who …
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Socially oriented negative self-referent cognition : the development and validation of a measure
… self-referent cognition in a younger population. Measurement validation procedures including, reliability, validity, and factor analysis, were utilized to examine the proposed questionnaire. Results indicated that the SONAS scale demonstrated good psychometric properties, including a sound …
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Life satisfaction index for the third age (LSITA) : a measure of successful aging
… was used to assess 654 third age adults in a measurement development process to establish the LSITA's psychometric properties. These individuals were Midwestern United States adults from selected third age learning events, retirement centers, church events, community centers and the general …
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Recognizing addictive disorders through transdiagnostic assessment
<p>Some evidence suggests high rates of comorbidity between substance and other related addictive disorders. However, few self-report instruments adopt a transdiagnostic approach, which would be best positioned to answer questions about comorbidity as well as other related phenomenon, such as …
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THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A MEASURE OF COLLEGE STUDENT ATHLETE INTEGRATION
Research has shown that a student's level of institutional integration is a better predictor of college persistence than academic performance (Pascarella & Terenzini, 1980). Tinto (1975) proposed that institutional integration is the student's perception of his/her fit to the university he/she is …
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“I Wanna Be the Very Best Like No One Ever Was” in Every Situation: Developing and Validating Achievement Motivation SJTs Across Contexts
Achievement motivation, a key predictor of performance across life domains, has traditionally been studied through fragmented theoretical frameworks and self-report measures that neglect contextual nuance. This thesis proposes a comprehensive, multidimensional model of achievement motivation, …
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A case for multiple item response theory: The Cancer Health Literacy Measure-Breast and Cervical Cancer-Uruguay
… are novel and uncommon approaches in health measurement making this one of the first public health studies to use these beneficial procedures. Findings revealed three Mokken scales for breast and cervical cancer knowledge items: (a) breast cancer self-detection, (b) breast cancer other …