Bifactor Models for Predicting Criteria by General and Specific Factors: Problems of Nonidentifiability and Alternative Solutions [PDF]
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.
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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 +1 more
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Calibrating the Test of Relational Reasoning: New Information From Oblique Bifactor Models [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Relational reasoning (RR) is believed to be an essential construct for studying higher education learning. Relational reasoning is defined as an ability to discern meaningful patterns within any stream of information.
Denis Federiakin
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What are the consequences of ignoring cross-loadings in bifactor models? A simulation study assessing parameter recovery and sensitivity of goodness-of-fit indices [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Bifactor latent models have gained popularity and are widely used to model construct multidimensionality. When adopting a confirmatory approach, a common practice is to assume that all cross-loadings take zero values. This article presents the results of
Carmen Ximénez +3 more
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Transdiagnostic and symptom-domain associations between mental illnesses and future self-connectedness versus future self-valence. [PDF]
JCPP AdvAbstract 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.
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Establishing a transdiagnostic dimension of early childhood depressive symptoms using the Preschool Feelings Checklist‐Scale [PDF]
JCPP AdvAbstract Background Young child depressive symptoms are associated with various concurrent and future psychiatric problems, indicating early transdiagnostic risk for psychopathology. We now need studies that identify and test the robustness, reliability, and validity of early emerging depressive symptom dimensions, examining them relative to wide ...
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Psychometric Validation of the Italian 8-Item Green Paranoid Thoughts Scale (GPTS-8). [PDF]
Int J Methods Psychiatr ResABSTRACT Background Paranoid ideation ranges from mild social‐evaluative concerns to persecutory beliefs. The eight‐item Green Paranoid Thoughts Scale (GPTS‐8) provides a brief assessment of this continuum through reference and persecution items. Aims To examine the psychometric properties of the Italian version of the GPTS‐8, including its factorial ...
Preti A, Masala C, Petretto DR.
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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
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Test of the Bifactor Model of Job-Related Affective Well-Being
Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2019 The multidimensional measure of the job-related affective well-being developed by Warr (1990) is a frequently used tool estimating affect in the work context. Alternative factorial models of this measure were tested in previous studies.
Mariola Laguna +2 more
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Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2019 The symmetrical bifactor model is often applied to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)-hyperactive/impulsive (HI), ADHD-inattentive (IN), and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) symptoms, but this model frequently yields anomalous or inadmissible results.
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