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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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Riskier Tests of the Validity of Bifactor Models of Psychopathology

, 2019
We advanced several “riskier tests” of the validity of bifactor models of psychopathology, which included that the general and specific factors should be reliable and well-represented by their indicators, and that including a general factor should improve the correlated factor model’s external validity.
Ashley L. Watts, Holly Poore, Irwin Waldman   +2 more
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The Bifactor Model of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire [PDF]

European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 2013
The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a frequently used instrument developed for screening childhood mental health problems. The aim of this study is to clarify the structure of the Hungarian version of SDQ, to test previous measurement models, and to propose an alternative bifactor model. Data were collected from a community sample of
Kóbor, Andrea, Takács, Ádám, Urbán, Róbert   +2 more
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Competing Confirmatory Factor Analysis Models in Management Research: Bifactor Modeling of the Employee Work Assessment Tool

Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy
Management researchers often use structural equation modeling to analyze data from questionnaire-based instruments. Usually, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is applied to confirm the hypothesized or theorized factor structure of the instrument.
Theophilus Ehidiamen OAMEN
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Measurement Invariance in Longitudinal Bifactor Models: Review and Application Based on the <i>p</i> Factor. [PDF]

Assessment, 2023
Bifactor models are increasingly being utilized to study latent constructs such as psychopathology and cognition, which change over the lifespan. Although longitudinal measurement invariance (MI) testing helps ensure valid interpretation of change in a ...
Neufeld SAS, St Clair M, Brodbeck J, Wilkinson PO, Goodyer IM, Jones PB.   +5 more
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Assessing the Psychometric Properties of the Child Behaviour Checklist in the ABCD Study. [PDF]

Dev Sci
ABSTRACT The Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL) is a widely used measure of psychopathology in developmental research and serves as the primary measure in the landmark Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study (N = 11,861; 8–11 years). However, its psychometric properties in this sample have not been assessed in detail.
Pavlovich K, Constable T, Fornito A, Tiego J.   +3 more
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A Construct Revalidation of the Community of Inquiry Survey: Empirical Evidence for a General Factor Under a Bifactor Structure

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, Guo, Jinxin, Xu, Xin, Ying, Zhiliang, Zhang, Susu   +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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