Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2018 Background Resilience is an individual’s ability to recover or “bounce back” from stressful events. It is commonly identified as a protective factor against psychological dysfunctions in wide range of clinical conditions including chronic pain ...
Saurab Sharma +3 more
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Evaluation of the Limb Symmetry Index: The Side Hop Test
Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 The main objective of present study was to evaluate inter-rater reliability and concurrent validity of Side Hop Test stopwatch vs. force plates timing, and to determine the number of sessions and trials required to minimize the effects of learning on ...
Sanja V. Mirković +6 more
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Concurrent Validity and Inter-Rater Reliability of Hand-Held Measurements of Maximal Sprint Speed [PDF]
Journal of Kinesiology and Exercise Sciences, 2022 Background: Maximal sprinting speed (MSS) is an essential component of success in many sports. Currently, many systems are used to accurately evaluate athletes’ MSS, including laser or radar guns, single- or dual-beam photocells, high-speed cameras, and ...
Bartosz Zając +2 more
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The stability of intelligence from age 11 to age 90 years:the Lothian birth cohort of 1921 [PDF]
, 2013 As a foundation for studies of human cognitive aging, it is important to know the stability of individual differences in cognitive ability across the life course. Few studies of cognitive ability have tested the same individuals in youth and old age.
General Register Office +10 more
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Testing and comparing two self-care-related instruments among older Chinese adults [PDF]
, 2017 Objectives The study aimed to test and compare the reliability and validity, including sensitivity and specificity of the two self-care-related instruments, the Self-care Ability Scale for the Elderly (SASE), and the Appraisal of Self-care Agency Scale ...
A Millar +50 more
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Seguin Form Board as an intelligence tool for young children in an Indian urban slum
Family Medicine and Community Health, 2017 Objective: The present study evaluates the concurrent and predictive validity of the Seguin Form Board Test (SFBT) as an intelligence tool for children in low- and middle-income countries.
Beena Koshy +5 more
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A Psychometric Properties Evaluation of the Italian Version of the Geriatric Depression Scale [PDF]
, 2018 Objective. The Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) is an evaluation tool to diagnose older adult's depression. This questionnaire was defined by Yesavage and Brink in 1982; it was designed expressly for the older person and defines his/her degree of ...
Bruni, Valentina +7 more
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Reliability and validity of the French version of the global physical activity questionnaire
Journal of Sport and Health Science, 2018 Background: The Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ) has been used to measure physical activity (PA) and sedentary time in France, but no study has assessed its psychometric properties.
Fabien Rivière +5 more
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Measuring enrichment: The assembly and validation of an instrument to assess student self-beliefs in CS1 [PDF]
, 2014 Educational research shows that self-beliefs can have profound influences on learning behavior and achievement. It follows, then, that beliefs about the nature of programming aptitude (mindset) and the way individuals perceive themselves as programmers ...
Ghinea, G, Scott, M
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The impact of job complexity and study design on situational and behavior description interview validity [PDF]
, 2004 The primary purpose of this investigation was to test two key characteristics hypothesized to influence the validity of situational (SI) and behavior description (BDI) structured interviews.
Conway, James M. +3 more
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