Bifactor analysis of the rosenberg self-esteem scale in morbid obesity
Self-esteem is a set of feelings and thoughts a person has about his/her own worth and competence, which is reflected in a positive or negative attitude toward himself/herself. This study examined the factor structure of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale with scores of 288 obese brazilian women waiting for bariatric surgery.
José Augusto Evangelho Hernandez +2 more
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Bifactor item response theory model of acute stress response. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Better understanding of acute stress responses is important for revision of DSM-5. However, the latent structure and relationship between different aspects of acute stress responses haven't been clarified comprehensively.
Yebing Yang +6 more
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Psychometric precision in phenotype definition is a useful step in molecular genetic investigation of psychiatric disorders [PDF]
Affective disorders are highly heritable, but few genetic risk variants have been consistently replicated in molecular genetic association studies. The common method of defining psychiatric phenotypes in molecular genetic research is either a summation ...
A Brown +55 more
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Psychometric evidence of the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory in undergraduate nursing students at a public institution [PDF]
Objective: to verify the internal and structural consistency of the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory in young undergraduate nursing students. Method: this is a cross-sectional methodological study carried out with young university students enrolled in the ...
Susane Vasconcelos +5 more
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The unity and diversity of executive functions: A systematic review and re-analysis of latent variable studies. [PDF]
Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) has been frequently applied to executive function measurement since first used to identify a three-factor model of inhibition, updating, and shifting; however, subsequent CFAs have supported inconsistent models across ...
Areshenkoff, Corson N +5 more
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Psychometric properties of the Dutch version of the Evidence-Based Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS). [PDF]
BackgroundThe Evidence-Based Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS) was developed in the United States to assess attitudes of mental health and welfare professionals toward evidence-based interventions.
Aarons, Gregory A +5 more
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Background The International Knee Documentation Committee Subjective Knee Form (IKDC) is the most highly recommended patient reported outcome measure for assessing patients with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries and those undergoing ACL ...
H. Marmura +3 more
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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
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Viability of a MSQOL-54 general health-related quality of life score using bifactor model
Background MSQOL-54 is a multidimensional, widely-used, health-related quality of life (HRQOL) instrument specific for multiple sclerosis (MS). Findings from the validation study suggested that the two MSQOL-54 composite scores are correlated. Given this
Andrea Giordano +23 more
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Integrating Item Accuracy and Reaction Time to Improve the Measurement of Inhibitory Control Abilities in Early Childhood [PDF]
Efforts to improve children’s executive function are often hampered by the lack of measures that are optimized for use during the transition from preschool to elementary school.
Blair, Clancy B. +3 more
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