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Statistical indices from bifactor models

Interacciones, 2017
Many instruments are created with the primary purpose of scaling individuals on a single trait. However psychological traits are often complex and contain domain specific manifestations.
Sergio Alexis Dominguez-Lara, Anthony Rodriguez   +1 more
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Factor Structures of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in Cancer: Implications of Comprehensive Confirmatory Analysis on the German Version of the HADS in an Oncological Sample [PDF]

Cancer Medicine
Background The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is a widely used instrument for assessing anxiety and depression in cancer patients. However, the best factor structure for an oncological setting depending on the time of diagnosis is still ...
Thilo Dietz, Vera Schiewer, Hildegard Labouvie, Anna Hagemeier, Irena Pjanic, Christoph Herrmann‐Lingen, Michael Kusch   +6 more
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Validation of L2 grit among Chinese EFL high school students and its enduring effect on achievements: A bifactor model approach

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
The current study seeks to validate L2 grit measure among 637 Chinese senior middle school students using a bifactor modeling approach. To do so, we first assessed and compared four alternative measurement models including CFA, bifactor CFA, ESEM, and ...
Eerdemutu Liu, Junju Wang
exaly   +3 more sources

Bifactor Models for Predicting Criteria by General and Specific Factors: Problems of Nonidentifiability and Alternative Solutions

Journal of Intelligence, 2018
The bifactor model is a widely applied model to analyze general and specific abilities. Extensions of bifactor models additionally include criterion variables.
Michael Eid, Stefan Krumm, Tobias Koch   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

The Bifactor Model Fits Better Than the Higher-Order Model in More Than 90% of Comparisons for Mental Abilities Test Batteries

Journal of Intelligence, 2017
The factor structure of mental abilities has most often been depicted using a higher-order model. Under this model, general mental ability (g) is placed at the top of a pyramid, with “loading” arrows going from it to the other factors of intelligence ...
Jeffrey Cucina, Kevin Byle
exaly   +3 more sources

Financial well-being: Capturing an elusive construct with an optimized measure

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Several definitions and measures of financial well-being (FWB) have been proposed in the scientific literature. The Multidimensional Subjective Financial Well-being Scale (MSFWBS) stands out among these measures in its ability to account for the ...
Marc Aubrey, Alexandre J. S. Morin, Claude Fernet, Noémie Carbonneau   +3 more
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The applicability of the UCLA loneliness scale in South Africa: Factor structure and dimensionality

African Journal of Psychological Assessment, 2022
This study examines the generalisability of the University of California Los Angeles Loneliness Scale Version 3 (UCLA-LS3) in a South African sample of young adults. In particular, it examined the normative data, reliability, and factor structure of this
Tyrone B. Pretorius
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General and Specific Dimensions of Mood Symptoms Are Associated With Impairments in Common Executive Function in Adolescence and Young Adulthood

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022
Both unipolar and bipolar depression have been linked with impairments in executive functioning (EF). In particular, mood symptom severity is associated with differences in common EF, a latent measure of general EF abilities.
Elena C. Peterson, Hannah R. Snyder, Chiara Neilson, Benjamin M. Rosenberg, Christina M. Hough, Christina F. Sandman, Leoneh Ohanian, Samantha Garcia, Juliana Kotz, Jamie Finegan, Caitlin A. Ryan, Abena Gyimah, Sophia Sileo, David J. Miklowitz, Naomi P. Friedman, Roselinde H. Kaiser   +15 more
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Fluxgate Sensor with Bifactor Excitation Mode

Sensors, 2023
The paper considers non-destructive testing (NTDs) as a means to solve the flaw detection problems of magnetic products. It proposes a new probe-coil magnetic-field NDT, not requiring the pre-magnetization of the test object material, which is mandatory for all conventional magnetic flaw detection techniques.
Ivan V. Bryakin, Igor V. Bochkarev, Vadim R. Khramshin, Vadim R. Gasiyarov   +3 more
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Identifiability of Bifactor Models

Statistica Sinica, 2020
The bifactor model and its extensions are multidimensional latent variable models, under which each item measures up to one subdimension on top of the primary dimension(s). Despite their wide applications to educational and psychological assessments, this type of multidimensional latent variable models may suffer from non-identifiability, which can ...
Fang, Guanhua, Guo, Jinxin, Xu, Xin, Ying, Zhiliang, Zhang, Susu   +4 more
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