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How to Develop Reliable Instruments to Measure the Cultural Evolution of Preferences and Feelings in History?

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
While we cannot directly measure the psychological preferences of individuals, and the moral, emotional, and cognitive tendencies of people from the past, we can use cultural artifacts as a window to the zeitgeist of societies in particular historical ...
Mauricio de Jesus Dias Martins   +1 more
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Health literacy in patients with pulmonary embolism: development and validation of the HeLP (Health Literacy in Pulmonary Embolism)-Questionnaire

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundPulmonary embolism (PE) is a common cardiovascular disease and health literacy is necessary to deal with its consequences after the acute event. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a new questionnaire to measure PE-specific health
Simone Fischer   +10 more
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Psychometric Characteristics of a New Scale for Measuring Self-efficacy in the Regulation of Gambling Behavior

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
Since its introduction in 1977, self-efficacy has proven to be a fundamental predictor of positive adjustment and achievement in many domains. In problem gambling studies, self-efficacy has been defined mainly as an individual's ability to avoid gambling
Claudio Barbaranelli   +5 more
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Introducing a measure of perceived self-efficacy for proof (PSEP): Evidence of validity

open access: yesJournal of Research and Advances in Mathematics Education, 2021
It is widely recognized that students encounter difficulties with proof across all grades and beyond, yet standardized instruments related specifically to students’ perceived self-efficacy for mathematical proof have not been readily available.
Benjamin Shongwe, Vimolan Mudaly
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Quantifying vocabulary learning belief and strategy - A validation study of the Vietnamese version of Gu's (2018) vocabulary learning questionnaire

open access: yesHeliyon, 2023
Background: The field of language teaching and learning has long recognized the role of vocabulary knowledge in all aspects of language proficiency and indicated that vocabulary beliefs and learning strategies play a pivotal role in learners' vocabulary ...
Nguyen Huynh Trang   +2 more
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The structural validity of the innovative work behaviour questionnaire: Comparing competing factorial models

open access: yesThe Southern African Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management, 2019
Background: Innovation is about central organisational sustainability and is fundamentally centred in individuals. Objectives: Understanding and building theory on innovative work behaviour (IWB), as well as the parallel measurement thereof, is a ...
Renier Steyn, Gideon de Bruin
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Échelle auto-rapportée de psychopathie de Levenson : adaptation française et validation

open access: yesCriminologie, 2014
L’échelle auto-rapportée de psychopathie de Levenson (LSRP ; Levenson, Kiehl & Fitzpatrick, 1995) est un instrument visant à évaluer les traits de personnalité psychopathiques au sein de la population générale.
Claudia Savard   +2 more
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Smoking cessation and gender differences – results from a Swedish sample

open access: yesNordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 2015
AIM – Previous research has concluded that prevalence of smoking, reasons to quit and strategies to become smoke-free vary markedly by gender. Yet we lack a more comprehensive understanding of the process leading to a quit attempt and a positive long ...
Sohlberg Tove
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Psychometric Properties of the Positivity Scale among Chinese Adults and Early Adolescents

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
We conducted two studies to explore the psychometric properties of the Positivity Scale (P Scale) among Chinese adults and early adolescents, using a sample of 552 adults (Study 1) and a sample of 888 early adolescents (i.e., middle school students ...
Lili Tian   +2 more
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