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Measuring State and Trait Anxiety: An Application of Multidimensional Item Response Theory
The State-Trait Inventory for Cognitive and Somatic Anxiety (STICSA) is a widely used measure of state and trait anxiety. Within the Classical Testing Theory model, consistent findings provide support for its multidimensional factor structure ...
Leonardo Carlucci +4 more
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The coexistence of coping resources and specific coping styles in stress: evidence from full information item bifactor analysis. [PDF]
Knowledge of coping styles is useful in clinical diagnosis and suggesting specific therapeutic interventions. However, the latent structures and relationships between different aspects of coping styles have not been fully clarified.
Jiaxi Zhang +9 more
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Structural validation of the Self-Compassion Scale with a German general population sample. [PDF]
Published validation studies have reported different factor structures for the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS). The objective of this study was to assess the factor structure of the SCS in a large general population sample representative of the German ...
Adina Coroiu +8 more
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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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A Bifactor Model of the Polish Version of the Hare Self-Report Psychopathy Scale [PDF]
The 64-item Hare Self-Report Psychopathy Scale was translated into Polish with the aim to test construct validity and dimensionality, incremental validity, and composite reliability of the measure in a sample of working adults (N = 319).
Hyland, P +7 more
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The 5C model of Positive Youth Development has widely been researched in the last decade yielding inconsistent structural solutions in different cultural settings. This paper seeks to examine the structure of the 5C model in the Croatian context.
Miranda Novak +5 more
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Abstract Personality can be described at different levels of abstraction. Whereas the Big Five domains are the dominant level of analysis, several researchers have called for more fine‐grained approaches, such as facet‐level analysis. Personality facets allow more comprehensive descriptions, more accurate predictions of outcomes, and a better ...
Daniel Danner +4 more
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Objectives: Although cross-sectional investigations have found a bifactor structure of psychiatric comorbidity that includes a general psychopathology factor plus more specific factors, prospective evidence supporting the bifactor structure is still ...
Kia Gluschkoff +3 more
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This study aimed to examine the factor structure of the short-form of Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D-11) using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA).
Eun-Young Park
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Abstract Divergent thinking (DT) is an important constituent of creativity that captures aspects of fluency and originality. The literature lacks multivariate studies that report relationships between DT and its aspects with relevant covariates, such as cognitive abilities, personality traits (e.g. openness), and insight. In two multivariate studies (N
S. Weiss +6 more
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