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Psychometric properties of the WHOQOL-BREF among next of kin to older persons in nursing homes

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2020
Background The worries of next of kin about their older loved ones in nursing homes can be extensive and can adversely affect their subjective experiences of their own physical, mental and social well-being. It is thus of utmost importance to measure the
Helena Rosén, Gerd Ahlström, Annika Lexén   +2 more
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Developing a validated instrument to measure pre-service teachers’ ICT competencies : meeting the demands of the 21st-century [PDF]

, 2017
The main objective of this study is to develop a self-report instrument to measure pre-service teachers’ ICT competencies in education. The questionnaire items of this instrument are based on an existing comprehensive framework and were created with ...
Aesaert, Koen, Erstadt, Ola, Fraeyman, Norbert, Pynoo, Bram, Tondeur, Jo, van Braak, Johan   +5 more
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The competent Computational Thinking test (cCTt): Development and validation of an unplugged Computational Thinking test for upper primary school [PDF]

, 2022
With the increasing importance of Computational Thinking (CT) at all levels of education, it is essential to have valid and reliable assessments. Currently, there is a lack of such assessments in upper primary school. That is why we present the development and validation of the competent CT test (cCTt), an unplugged CT test targeting 7-9 year-old ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Dynamic fit index cutoffs for confirmatory factor analysis models.

Psychological methods, 2020
Model fit assessment is a central component of evaluating confirmatory factor analysis models and the validity of psychological assessments. Fit indices remain popular and researchers often judge fit with fixed cutoffs derived by Hu and Bentler (1999 ...
Daniel M. McNeish, M. Wolf
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An empirical evaluation of alternative methods of estimation for confirmatory factor analysis with ordinal data.

Psychological methods, 2004
Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is widely used for examining hypothesized relations among ordinal variables (e.g., Likert-type items). A theoretically appropriate method fits the CFA model to polychoric correlations using either weighted least squares
D. Flora, P. Curran
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Development and initial testing of the self‐care of chronic illness inventory [PDF]

, 2018
Aim The aim was to develop and psychometrically test the self‐care of chronic illness Inventory, a generic measure of self‐care. Background Existing measures of self‐care are disease‐specific or behaviour‐specific; no generic measure of self‐care ...
Barbaranelli, Claudio, Daus, Marguerite, Feinberg, Jodi L., Haedtke, Christine A., Jaarsma, Tiny, Lee, Solim, Miller, Jennifer L., Moser, Debra K., Riegel, Barbara, Sethares, Kristen A., Stromberg, Anna   +10 more
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Attachment Styles Within the Coach-Athlete Dyad: Preliminary Investigation and Assessment Development [PDF]

, 2002
The present preliminary study aimed to develop and examine the psychometric properties of a new sport-specific self-report instrument designed to assess athletes’ and coaches’ attachment styles. The development and initial validation comprised three main
Armsden G.C., Bäckström M., Carr S., Carr S., Collins N.L., Davidovitz R., Davis L., Forrest K.A., Gill D.L., Harlow H.F., Hazan C., Hoffmann R., Hu L., Jowett S., Jowett S., Jowett S., Li F., Lorimer R., Poczwardowski A., Ravitz P., Rhind D.J.A., Rhodes S.D., Rusbult C.E., Simpson J.A., Smoll F.J., Smoll F.J., Vealey R.S., West W., Wilkinson R.B.   +28 more
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Worry About Caregiving Performance: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Frontiers in Medicine, 2018
Recent studies on the Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI) support the existence of a unique factor, worry about caregiving performance (WaP), beyond role and personal strain.
Ruijie Li, Ruijie Li, Mei Sian Chong, Peng Chew Mark Chan, Peng Chew Mark Chan, Bee Gek Laura Tay, Noorhazlina Binte Ali, Noorhazlina Binte Ali, Wee Shiong Lim, Wee Shiong Lim   +9 more
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Dominant factors of SMEs failure - multigroup confirmatory factor analysis [PDF]

Serbian Journal of Management, 2019
The paper aims to provide empirical clarification over some key failure factors of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), and also analysis of the similarities and differences in factors' relations in the Republic of Serbia and Visegrad countries ...
Isidora Milošević, Ivan Mihajlović, Anđelka Stojanović   +2 more
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Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analyses of Religiosity. A Four-Factor Conceptual Model [PDF]

Lemos, Carlos Miguel, et al. "Dimensionality and factorial invariance of religiosity among Christians and the religiously unaffiliated." PloS one 14.5 (2019): e0216352, 2017
We describe an exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of the International Social Survey Programme Religion Cumulation (1991-1998-2008) data set, to identify the factors of individual religiosity and their interrelations in quantitative terms. The exploratory factor analysis was performed using data from the first two waves (1991 and 1998), and ...
arxiv   +1 more source