Assessing Work-Life Balance in Malta and Italy: A Cross-Cultural Investigation Using Exploratory Structural Equation Modelling (ESEM). [PDF]
Psychol Res Behav ManagWork-life balance (WLB) represents a well-established construct in several fields. However, the post-pandemic period has prompted substantial re-evaluations of the boundaries between professional and personal life among the general population, highlighting a critical need for renewed theoretical frameworks and empirical updates in this field.
Bottaro R, De Giovanni K, Faraci P.
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Italian Adaptation of the No-Mobile-Phone-Phobia Questionnaire: Factorial Validity with the ESEM Technique and Population-Based Cut-Off Scores [PDF]
European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and EducationNomophobia is a multifaceted phenomenon characterized by fear and anxiety when individuals feel disconnected from their technological environment. Its assessment remains difficult due to limited tools and lack of empirically supported cut-off points ...
Sergio Traficante +9 more
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Reliability and validity of the Kurdish version of the patient health questionnaire-15 in a trauma-affected population [PDF]
BMC PsychiatryBackground Somatic symptoms are common among trauma-exposed populations and are often associated with persistent distress and functional impairment, highlighting the need for culturally appropriate assessment tools.
Ibrahim Mohammed +8 more
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Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling (ESEM): An Integration of EFA and CFA
Advances in Psychological Science, 2013 Yujiao Mai, Zhonglin Wen
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Psychometric validation of Utrecht Work Engagement Scale-Student-9 in Chinese undergraduate students [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionAcademic engagement represents a critical construct in educational psychology, yet comprehensive psychometric validation of assessment instruments remains limited within Chinese higher education contexts.
Zhixia Wei +4 more
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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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Performance of exploratory structural equation model (ESEM) in detecting differential item functioning [PDF]
EUREKA: Social and Humanities, 2022 The validity of a standardised test is questioned if an irrelevant construct is accounted for the performance of examinees, which is wrongly modeled as the ability in the construct (test items). A test must ensure precision in the examinee's ability irrespective of their sub-population in any demographic variables. This paper explored the potentials of
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Comparing the ESEM and CFA approaches to analyze the Big Five factors [PDF]
Avaliação Psicológica, 2017 Marsh (2007) asserts that no self-reported questionnaire of the Big Five factors shows an acceptable degree of adjustment in confirmatory factor analyses (CFA).
Cristiano Mauro Assis Gomes +1 more
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BMC Psychiatry, 2023 Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) has been a popular yet limited approach to assessing latent factor structures. Despite items rarely loading exclusively on one latent factor in multifactorial scales, CFA assumes all indicators/items should load ...
Maria Prokofieva +4 more
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Frontiers in Education, 2023 In the Dynamic Model of Educational Effectiveness, classroom-level effectiveness factors are assessed through observations or aggregated students’ ratings.
Christophe Dierendonck
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