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- Substance Abuse Treatment, Self Efficacy, Humans, Substance Abuse
- by Susan Risi
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- Algorithms, Psychometrics, Personality Assessment, Down Syndrome
- by Ceasar Douglas
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- Management, Marketing, Emotional intelligence, Business and Management
- by Joshua Broman-Fulks
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- Psychology, Assessment, Anger, Psychometrics
- by Liliana Rodriguez
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- Sociology, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Cultural Identity
- by Leslie Dechurch
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- Psychology, Child Care, Scale Development, Work and Family
- by Melissa González
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- Psychology, Assessment, Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorders

Theories regarding susceptibility to emotional contagion, which address the ease of "catching" the emotions expressed by others, have recently received growing interest in the field of social psychology and health. Despite the theoretical and empirical importance, reliable and valid instruments to assess emotional contagion in men and women from cultures outside the English-speaking world are not well developed. The present study examines the psychometric properties and factor structure of the Greek adaptation of the Emotional Contagion Scale (ECS), and is a first attempt to test its measurement invariance across gender and culture groups (Greece and Sweden). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of competing models supports a five-factor model that includes the five basic emotions of anger, fear, sadness, happiness, and love. Using multiple-group CFA and a sequence of nested tests, configural invariance and partial metric and partial scalar invariance across gender and culture groups of the five-factor model were demonstrated. The results show that meaningful comparisons of ECS can be made across men and women from different cultures and support the hypothesis that susceptibility to emotional contagion operates at a differential emotions level.

- by Lars-Olov Lundqvist
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- Psychology, Cognitive Science, Social Psychology, Emotional Contagion

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the development and validation of a multi-dimensional instrument to measure servant leadership. Design/Methodology/Approach Based on an extensive literature review and expert judgment, 99 items were formulated. In three steps, using eight samples totaling 1571 persons from The Netherlands and the UK with a diverse occupational background, a combined exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis approach was used. This was followed by an analysis of the criterion-related validity. Findings The final result is an eight-dimensional measure of 30 items: the eight dimensions being: standing back, forgiveness, courage, empowerment, accountability, authenticity, humility, and stewardship. The internal consistency of the subscales is good. The results show that the Servant Leadership Survey (SLS) has convergent validity with other leadership measures, and also adds unique elements to the leadership field. Evidence for criterion-related validity came from studies relating the eight dimensions to well-being and performance. Implications With this survey, a valid and reliable instrument to measure the essential elements of servant leadership has been introduced. Originality/Value The SLS is the first measure where the underlying factor structure was developed and confirmed across several field studies in two countries. It can be used in future studies to test the underlying premises of servant leadership theory. The SLS provides a clear picture of the key servant leadership qualities and shows where improvements can be made on the individual and organizational level; as such, it may also offer a valuable starting point for training and leadership development.

- by Ömer Öter
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- Business, Organizational Behavior, Marketing, Psychology
- by Manuel Barrera and +1
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- Psychology, Death, Mental Health, Social Support

This study gives results of the first phase of the 12-18 year old Turkish students’ norm study of The Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ), which deveoped by Pintrich, Smith, Garcia & McKeachie (1993). The scale was administrated to 1114 students from 3 primary schools and 3 high schools in Ankara in Turkish language, science, mathematics and social science courses. After eliminating the questionnaires which have missing and extreme values, the analyses were done on 762 valid questionnaires for motivation subscale and 1100 valid questionnaires for learning strategies subscale. Results of the confirmatory factor analyses show that the first subscale, Motivation, has six factors, and the second subscale, Learning Strategies, has nine factors according to original scale’s factor structures. Depending on the results of the confirmatory factor analysis; 6 items from motivation subscale and 5 items from learning strategies subscale were removed due to their low factor lo...

- by Ebru Kiliç-Çakmak
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- Psychology, Primary School, Extreme Value Theory, High School

Data were collected by the members of the Russian character and personality survey from 39 samples in 33 administrative areas of the Russian Federation. Respondents (N = 7065) identified an ethnically Russian adult or college‐aged man or woman whom they knew well and rated the target using the Russian observer rating version of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory, which measures neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness. Factor analyses within samples showed that the factor structure of an international sample combining data from 50 different cultures was well replicated in all 39 Russian samples. Sex differences replicated the known pattern in all samples, demonstrating that women scored higher than men on most of the neuroticism, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness facet scales. Cross‐sectional analyses demonstrated consistent age differences for four factors: Older individuals compared to younger ones were less extraverted ...

- by Anastasia Trifonova
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- Psychology, Cross Cultural Research, Russian Federation, European
- by Atle Dyregrov
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- Psychology, Cognitive Science, Psychometrics, Principal Component Analysis
- by J Maiti
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- Engineering, Risk Taking, Public sector, Multivariate Analysis
- by Andrew Garman
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- Organizational Behavior, Management, Marketing, Psychology
- by Richard Howard
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- Psychology, Cognitive Science, Personality, Personality Assessment
- by jacques barber
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- Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Higher Order Thinking, Psychometric Properties
- by Omri Gillath
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- Psychology, Confirmatory factor analysis, Sexual Behavior, Validity and Reliability

This paper examines the policy response of Australian governments to petrol sniffing in Indigenous communities from the 1980s until the present. During this period, despite the formation of numerous inquiries, working parties and intergovernmental committees, there has been little accumulation of knowledge about the nature and causes of sniffing, or about the effectiveness of interventions. Policies are fragmentary; programmes are rarely evaluated, and most rely on short-term funding. The paper sets out to explain why this should be so. It draws upon a conceptual framework known as 'analytics of government' to examine the ways in which petrol sniffing comes to the attention of government agencies and is perceived as an issue; the mechanisms deployed by governments to address petrol sniffing; ways in which knowledge about sniffing is generated; and the underlying assumptions about people that inform policy-making. Drawing upon case studies of policy responses, the paper argue...

- by Maggie Brady
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- Australia, Information Policy, Drug Policy, Humans

A new measure of motivation toward education has been developed in French, namely the Echelle de Motivation en Education (EME). The EME is based on the tenets of self-determination theory and is composed of 28 items subdivided into seven sub-scales assessing three types of intrinsic motivation (intrinsic motivation to know, to accomplish things, and to experience stimulation), three types of extrinsic motivation (external, introjected, and identified regulation), and a motivation. The purpose of this investigation was to cross-culturally validate in English the EME. The EME was translated in English through appropriate methodological procedures and completed by university students. Results revealed that the English version of the scale renamed the Academic Motivation Scale (AMS), has satisfactory levels of internal consistency (mean alpha value = .81) and temporal stability over a one-month period (mean test-retest correlation = .79). In addition, results of a confirmatory factor an...

- by Marc Blais
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- Psychology, Psychometrics, Personality, Intrinsic motivation

The present study evaluated the subjective happiness of Lebanese college youth using a multi-item rather than a single-item subjective happiness measure. An Arabic translation of the Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS) was administered to 273 Lebanese college youth from state- and private-run higher institutions of learning, as was the Arabic Adult Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire (Arabic PARQ). The reliability and validity of the Arabic SHS was tested in terms of factor analysis, internal consistency, and correlation with Arabic PARQ scores, as was the factorial invariance and relation of the scale across age, sex, marital status, birth order, and college campus. The Arabic SHS showed a reliable unitary structure similar to those found in other cultures, and factorial invariance across sex, marital status, birth order and college campus. While age, sex, marital status and birth order were independent of happiness scores, college students attending the private university reported greater happiness than those from the state-run academic setting. It was concluded that the Lebanese Arabic SHS is a reliable and valid measure of global subjective happiness, its factor structure is similar across other translated versions of the scale, and its scores are independent of age, sex, marital status and birth order.

- by Lamia Moghnieh
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- Sociology, Semitic languages, Social Indicators, Translation
- by Zoe Kopp
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- Psychometrics, Clinical Trial, Quality of life, Treatment Outcome

The available self-report questionnaire for the quality of life in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC-40) is currently validated only in the British population but it lacks an evaluation of its dimensionality.To validate the Italian and Japanese versions of PBC-40 and to assess the dimensionality of the original structure of PBC-40 by a confirmatory factor analysis. PBC-40 was translated to Italian and Japanese using the forward–backward method and then reviewed in focus groups in the framework of a large multicentric study.A sample of 290 patients with PBC (125 Italian and 165 Japanese) was administered two questionnaires previously validated for PBC-specific (PBC-40) and general quality of life (SF-36).The confirmatory model failed to fit adequately the original hypothesized structure. A principal component analysis led to a seven-factor structure, with exclusion of 13 items characterized by lower load; PBC-27 questionnaire was the final instrument. The validity of the PBC-27 was supported by its strong correlation with the SF-36 scores.We here propose an alternative structure of the quality of life questionnaire for PBC, namely PBC-27, which appears to be effective in detecting the impact of PBC on quality of life in Italian and Japanese patients.

- by Alessandra Frigerio and +2
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- Principal Component Analysis, Quality of life, Japan, Italy
- by Walter Mangezi
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- Psychology, Anxiety Disorders, Psychometrics, Mental Health
- by Donald Saklofske
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- Psychology, Cognitive Science, Psychometrics, Emotional intelligence

In this paper the refinement and psychometric properties of the Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (ITSEA) are described. Results from a sociodemographically diverse birth cohort sample of 1,235 parents of children between the ages of 12 and 36 months are presented. Confirmatory factor analyses supported the hypothesized Internalizing, Externalizing, Regulatory, and Competence domains as well as the 17 individual scales that comprise the ITSEA. Findings for 3 additional indices useful in identifying significant psychopathology are presented. Subgroup analyses revealed structural invariance and expected mean level differences across both child sex and 6-month age bands. Child sex differences emerged for some problem and most competence scales, with boys rated as higher on Activity/Impulsivity and girls rated higher on Anxiety and most Competence scales. All competence scores increased across age groups. Problem behaviors showed a more mixed developmental pattern. Test-ret...

- by Alice Carter
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- Psychology, Assessment, Psychometrics, Personality

Objective: The authors evaluated the validity of trust in automation and information technology (IT) suspicion by examining their factor structure and relationship with decision confidence. Background: Research on trust has burgeoned, yet the dimensionality of trust remains elusive. Researchers suggest that trust is a unidimensional construct, whereas others believe it is multidimensional. Additionally, novel constructs, such as IT suspicion, have yet to be distinguished from trust in automation. Research is needed to examine the overlap between these constructs and to determine the dimensionality of trust in automation. Method: Participants (N = 72) engaged in a computer-based convoy scenario involving an automated decision aid. The aid fused real-time sensor data and provided route recommendations to participants who selected a route based on (a) a map with historical enemy information, (b) sensor inputs, and (c) automation suggestions. Measures for trust in automation and IT susp...

- by Charlene Stokes
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- Psychology, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Information Technology
- by Yupin Aungsuroch
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- Psychometrics, Focus Groups, Psychological Well Being, Factor analysis

Much psychological inquiry has focused on understanding the contribution that exposure to urban violence makes to violent behavior among youth. However, other ways in which these variables may be related have been largely overlooked. This study compared four alternative social–ecological models of the link between community violence exposure and violent behavior to determine the degree to which (1) community violence exposure contributes to violent behavior, (2) violent behavior contributes to community violence exposure, (3) both are consequences of common antecedents, and (4) both are manifestations of the same higher order construct. Two hundred and seventy-seven adolescent offenders were interviewed about family, neighborhood, cognitive, and peer characteristics, in addition to violent behavior and community violence exposure. Results suggest that a plausible way to understand the association between community violence exposure and youth violent behavior is to consider both as representations of a general involvement in violence.

- by Colleen Halliday-Boykins
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- Psychology, Violence, Cognition, Social Interaction
- by Rachid Amara and +1
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- Earth Sciences, Biological Sciences, Seasonality, Environmental Sciences
- by Paola Rucci
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- Brain Imaging, Psychometrics, Fear, Adolescent
- by Neil Anderson
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- Psychology, Assessment, Human Resource Management, Managerial Psychology
- by Duncan Mitchell
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- Multilingualism, Pain, Quality of life, Comorbidity
- by Michael Leiter
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- Psychology, Mental Health, Health Care, Business and Management
- by Emelien Lauwerier
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- Psychology, Chronic Pain, Behavioral Medicine, Construct Validity
- by Maria Semkovska
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- Genetics, Psychometrics, Schizophrenia, Humans
- by michael mccullough
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- Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Counseling, College Students
- by Gerard Saucier
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- Psychology, Cognitive Science, Personality, Vocabulary
- by Vivien Huan
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- Psychology, Education, Psychometrics, Personality
- by Deborah Beidel
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- Psychology, Cognitive Science, Social Sciences, Spanish
- by sanjay srivastava
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- Psychology, Medical Students, Standard Deviation, Personality Disorder

Given the increasing interest in quality of life research in cancer survivorship, psychometric properties of the Quality of Life-Cancer Survivors (QOL-CS) were explored in a group of childhood cancer survivors. The QOL-CS is a 41-item visual analog scale composed of four multi-item sub-scales (physical well-being, psychological well-being, social well-being, spiritual well-being) and two sub-components (fears, distress). This instrument was incorporated in a mailed survey completed by 177 respondents. The underlying factor structure and internal reliability of the instrument were explored. A preliminary assessment of the external validity of the factor structure was undertaken. Results of a factor analysis were theoretically consistent with elements assessed in the QOL-CS, although misclassification of several items was noted and discussed. Internal-consistency reliability was very good (Cronbach's alpha = 0.80-0.89) for five of the six factors. Moderate (0.30 < r < 0.45) ...

- by Mark Chesler
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- Quality of life, Adolescent, Social status, Psychological Well Being
- by Gordon Finley
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- Sociology, Parent Involvement, Factor structure
- by Tanya Murphy
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- Anxiety Disorders, Assessment, Adolescent, Behavioral Science

A striking rise in the incidence and prevalence of congestive heart failure (CHF) in the Chinese population has been reported. While promoting the quality of life (QOL) of these patients is widely recognized as an important clinical priority, there is not a validated Chinese disease-specific QOL measure for CHF patients. The aim of this study was to validate the Chinese version of Chronic Heart Failure Questionnaire (CHQ-C) which measures the disease-specific QOL of patients with CHF. A sample of 110 CHF elderly patients and a comparison group of 64 healthy elderly people was recruited. Structured questionnaires were administered by a research nurse. Criterion and construct validity of CHQ-C was demonstrated by its significant correlation with the New York Heart Association classification (Spearman r = −0.52, p Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (Pearson r = −0.74, p

- by Doris Yu
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- Psychometrics, Quality of life, China, Hong Kong

- by Alice Carter
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- Psychology, Assessment, Psychometrics, Personality

Title: The Interpersonal Difficulty Scale for Adolescents: (EDIA): Factorial structure and reliability. Abstract: This main aim of this research was to analyze the factor structure and reliability of the Escala de Dificultad In- terpersonal para Adolescentes (EDIA), a new self-report devel- oped to assess interpersonal difficulty in adolescence. The questionnaire was applied to a random sample of 841 high school

- by Cándido Ingles
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- Exploratory Factor Analysis, Rating Scale, Family Relations, Social Skill