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Bifactor item response theory model of acute stress response. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
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, Yunfeng Sun, Ying Zhang, Yuan Jiang, Jingjing Tang, Xia Zhu, Danmin Miao   +6 more
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A bifactor model of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory

Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 2014
Purpose: The Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI) is a self-administered measurement instrument designed to provide information concerning positive psychological changes after a traumatic life event. The aim of the present study was to examine the psychometric properties of the PTGI in a Hungarian sample.
Konkoly Thege, Barna, Kovács Éva,, Balog, Piroska   +2 more
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On the Trail of Creativity: Dimensionality of Divergent Thinking and Its Relation With Cognitive Abilities, Personality, and Insight

European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
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, D. Steger, Y. Kaur, A. Hildebrandt, U. Schroeders, O. Wilhelm, Christian Kandler   +6 more
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Dimensionality of the Mental Toughness Questionnaire (MTQ48)

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Currently there is debate as to whether mental toughness is a unidimensional or multidimensional construct. To investigate the dimensionality of the Mental Toughness Questionnaire 48-items (MTQ48), a widely used measure of mental toughness, we examined ...
John L. Perry, Doug Strycharczyk, Neil Dagnall, Andrew Denovan, Kostas A. Papageorgiou, Peter J. Clough   +5 more
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Examination of a bifactor model of the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory- Revised

Análise Psicológica, 2022
The current study evaluated a bifactor model for the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory Revised (OCI-R) in two samples, with (n=188) and without (n=408) obsessive-compulsive disorder(OCD). Since the OCI-R has been traditionally conceptualized as a correlated six-factor instrument, our goal was to evaluate the fit of a bifactor model against three competing
Miguel Faria, Paulo Sargento, Marta Branco, Mónica Teixeira   +3 more
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The General Psychopathology Factor: Structural Stability and Generalizability to Within-Individual Changes

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2019
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, Markus Jokela, Tom Rosenström, Tom Rosenström   +3 more
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Over reliance on model fit indices in confirmatory factor analyses may lead to incorrect inferences about bifactor models: A cautionary note

African Journal of Psychological Assessment, 2021
This brief article attempts to describe the importance of relying not just on model fit indices, but also on bifactor, confirmatory factor analysis to examine the factor structure of instruments presumed to be multidimensional.
Tyrone B. Pretorius
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The Bifactor Model Fits Better Than the Higher-Order Model in More Than 90% of Comparisons for Mental Abilities Test Batteries

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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A Comprehensive Review and Bifactor Modeling Analysis of the Brief COPE

INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2022
The Brief COPE is a measure of coping strategies that contains 14 factors. The purpose of this research was twofold: (a) examine the psychometric proprieties of the Brief Cope in previous studies; and (b) perform Confirmatory Factor Analyses (CFA) with second-order model and bifactor model specifications that could be used to assess the best model that
Rodrigues, Filipe, Figueiredo, Nuno, Rodrigues, José, Ferreira, Regina, Hernández-Mendo, Antonio, Monteiro, Diogo   +5 more
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Viability of a MSQOL-54 general health-related quality of life score using bifactor model

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2021
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, Silvia Testa, Marta Bassi, Sabina Cilia, Antonio Bertolotto, Maria Esmeralda Quartuccio, Erika Pietrolongo, Monica Falautano, Monica Grobberio, Claudia Niccolai, Beatrice Allegri, Rosa Gemma Viterbo, Paolo Confalonieri, Ambra Mara Giovannetti, Eleonora Cocco, Maria Grazia Grasso, Alessandra Lugaresi, Elisa Ferriani, Ugo Nocentini, Mauro Zaffaroni, Alysha De Livera, George Jelinek, Alessandra Solari, Rosalba Rosato   +23 more
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