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Temperament factors and dimensional, latent bifactor models of child psychopathology: Transdiagnostic and specific associations in two youth samples [PDF]
Psychiatry Research, 2017 Laura Glynn, Elysia Davis, Jami Young
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Language Testing in Asia, 2021 Rasch testlet and bifactor models are two measurement models that could deal with local item dependency (LID) in assessing the dimensionality of reading comprehension testlets.
Masoud Geramipour
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The few studies that have analyzed the factorial structure of early number skills have mainly used confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and have yielded inconsistent results, since early numeracy is considered to be unidimensional, multidimensional or even
Christophe Dierendonck +5 more
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International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021 The study revisited the community of inquiry (CoI) instrument for construct revalidation. To that end, the study used confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to examine four competing models (unidimensional, correlated-factor, second-order factor, and ...
Hongwei Yang, Ph.D., Jian Su, Ph.D.
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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 +4 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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A Motivational-Developmental Free Response Assessment Through a Bifactor Lens
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 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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Measuring State and Trait Anxiety: An Application of Multidimensional Item Response Theory
Behavioral Sciences, 2023 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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Investigation of a bifactor model of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire [PDF]
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2015 The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is used to measure psychopathological symptoms in children and adolescents from 4 to 17 years old, but its underlying structure is still a matter of debate. Indeed, on the basis of a systematic review of English and non-English articles conducted using multiple databases, 54 studies reporting on the ...
Caci, Herve +2 more
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Empirical Underidentification with the Bifactor Model: A Case Study [PDF]
Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2017 Bifactor models are commonly used to assess whether psychological and educational constructs underlie a set of measures. We consider empirical underidentification problems that are encountered when fitting particular types of bifactor models to certain types of data sets.
Samuel, Green, Yanyun, Yang
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