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Validation of L2 grit among Chinese EFL high school students and its enduring effect on achievements: A bifactor model approach

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
The current study seeks to validate L2 grit measure among 637 Chinese senior middle school students using a bifactor modeling approach. To do so, we first assessed and compared four alternative measurement models including CFA, bifactor CFA, ESEM, and ...
Eerdemutu Liu, Junju Wang, Sachurina Bai
doaj   +1 more source

Modelling the Incremental Value of Personality Facets: The Domains‐Incremental Facets‐Acquiescence Bifactor Model

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract Personality can be described at different levels of abstraction. Whereas the Big Five domains are the dominant level of analysis, several researchers have called for more fine‐grained approaches, such as facet‐level analysis. Personality facets allow more comprehensive descriptions, more accurate predictions of outcomes, and a better ...
Daniel Danner   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling: Practical Guidelines and Tutorial With a Convenient Online Tool for Mplus

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
Critics of positive psychology have questioned the validity of positive psychological assessment measures (PPAMs), which negatively affects the credibility and public perception of the discipline. Psychometric evaluations of PPAMs have shown that various
Llewellyn E. van Zyl   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Construct Validity of the Social Provisions Scale: A Bifactor Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling Approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Extant theory posits well-differentiated dimensions of perceived social support as measured using the Social Provisions Scale (SPS). However, evidence is inconsistent with this multidimensionality perspective, with SPS factor correlations near unity and ...
Perera, HN, Perera, Harsha N.
core   +1 more source

Measuring Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, and Results: Psychometric Properties of the 12-Item SOAR Scale

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, and Results (SOAR) is a strengths-based framework for strategic thinking, planning, conversations, and leading that focuses on strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and results.
Matthew L. Cole   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploratory Structural Equation Modelling (ESEM): Application to the SET-37 Questionnaire for Students’ Evaluation of Teaching

open access: yesProcedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2012
AbstractThis study contains a re-validation of the SET37-questionnaire for student evaluations of teaching (Mortelmans & Spooren, 2009), using both confirmatory factor analysis and exploratory structural equation modelling (ESEM, Asparouhov & Muthén, 2009), that integrates both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses.
Spooren, Pieter   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Factorial validity and measurement invariance across gender groups of the German version of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index

open access: yesMeasurement Instruments for the Social Sciences, 2020
The Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) is the most widely used measure of empathy, but its factorial validity has been questioned. The present research investigates the factorial validity of the German adaptation of the IRI, the “Saarbrücker ...
Dennis Grevenstein
doaj   +1 more source

Using Psychometric Testing Procedures for Scale Validity, Reliability, and Invariance Analysis: The PRETIE-Q Portuguese Version

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, 2023
This study investigated the psychometric nature of preference for and tolerance of exercise intensity in physical activity. It initially re-examined the Preference for and Tolerance of the Intensity of Exercise Questionnaire (PRETIE-Q) among Portuguese ...
Filipe Rodrigues   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reconsidering the structure of the questionnaire for eudaimonic well-being using wide age-range Japanese adult sample: An exploratory analysis

open access: yesBMC Psychology, 2022
Background An increasing amount of research is now highlighting the importance of approaching issues of happiness through eudaimonic well-being. However, the literature does not conclusively show a full understanding of the construct of eudaimonic well ...
Yu Ishii   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Financial well-being: Capturing an elusive construct with an optimized measure

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Several definitions and measures of financial well-being (FWB) have been proposed in the scientific literature. The Multidimensional Subjective Financial Well-being Scale (MSFWBS) stands out among these measures in its ability to account for the ...
Marc Aubrey   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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