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Is Nomophobia Problematic or Functional? A Perspective from Bifactor Structure
With the extensive use of mobile phones globally, some people engage in excessive or problematic phone use behaviors. However, little is known regarding the latent structure of problematic mobile phone use. The current study employed the Chinese versions of the Nomophobia Questionnaire, Mobile Phone Addiction Tendency Scale, and Depression-Anxiety ...
Shixiu Ren +4 more
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ABSTRACT Objective The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) is a widely used measure of emotion dysregulation across clinical contexts. However, its psychometric properties and clinical utility have not been thoroughly examined in forensic populations.
Adam Meddeb +8 more
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Abstract Background Children who show difficult temperament are at risk of peer victimisation, which in turn associates with numerous negative outcomes later in life. We used network analysis to examine whether specific aspects of difficult temperament contributed to these associations, and whether the links were moderated by variations in genetic ...
Tom C.‐H. Wu +5 more
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Abstract Background Multiple dimensions of parenting–including hostility, conflict, and warmth–are associated with an array of mental disorders in youth. We tested two possible explanations for these associations: Parenting may shape a shared liability to experience many forms of psychopathology (“shared‐liability” hypothesis), or parenting may shape ...
Leah S. Richmond‐Rakerd +13 more
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mirt: A Multidimensional Item Response Theory Package for the R Environment
Item response theory (IRT) is widely used in assessment and evaluation research to explain how participants respond to item level stimuli. Several R packages can be used to estimate the parameters in various IRT models, the most flexible being the ltm ...
R. Philip Chalmers
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The Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire-2 (SF-MPQ-2; Dworkin et al., 2009) is intended to measure the multidimensional qualities of pain (i.e., continuous, intermittent, neuropathic, and affective) as well as total pain.
David M Tokar +2 more
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Transdiagnostic profiles of socio‐affective functioning in adolescents at‐risk of poor mental health
Abstract Background Adolescence is a developmental period during which many mental health problems emerge or worsen. Recently, there has been a shift towards identifying risk factors that predict psychopathology across a range of diagnostic boundaries—known as ‘transdiagnostic’ approaches.
Alex Lloyd +7 more
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A General Approach for Fitting Pure Exploratory Bifactor Models [PDF]
This article proposes a procedure for fitting a pure exploratory bifactor solution in which the general factor is orthogonal to the group factors, but the loadings on the group factors can satisfy any orthogonal or oblique rotation criterion. The proposal combines orthogonal Procrustes rotations with analytical rotations and consists of a sequence of ...
Urbano, Lorenzo-Seva, Pere J, Ferrando
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A Motivational-Developmental Free Response Assessment Through a Bifactor Lens
The Motivational-Developmental Assessment (MDA) measures a university student’s motivational and developmental attributes by utilizing overlapping constructs measured across four writing prompts.
David Alpizar, Brian F. French
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Abstract Background Future time perspective dimensions have been linked to various mental illnesses. Given the tendency for mental illnesses to co‐occur, it is necessary to disentangle associations between future‐oriented constructs and shared versus symptom‐domain‐specific psychopathology.
Yi Yang +6 more
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