The development and validation ofscale for assessing peer-mentoring processes in programs for first-year university students [PDF]
, 2018 Introduction. This study focuses on the development and validation of the Mentoring Processes Assessment Questionnaire –MPAQ- designed to assess mentoring processes in peermentoring programs aimed at first-year university students.Method. Participants in
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Factorial validity of the noise sensitivity questionnaire
Noise and Health, 2007 The Noise Sensitivity Questionnaire (NoiSeQ) aims at the measurement of global noise sensitivity as well as the sensitivity for five domains of everyday life namely 'Leisure', 'Work', 'Habitation', 'Communication' and 'Sleep'. The present investigation examined the factorial validity of the NoiSeQ to determine whether the items of the NoiSeQ cover the ...
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Pathologic use of video games and gotivation. Can the Gaming Motivation Scale (GAMS) predict depression and trait anxiety? [PDF]
, 2019 Videogaming is an increasingly prevalent activity among adolescents worldwide. The present study aimed at adapting the Gaming Motivation Scale (GAMS) to the Italian context, assessing its psychometric properties and verifying its sensitivity to predict ...
Curcio, Giuseppe +2 more
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Causality Orientations in the Work Setting: Scale Development and Validation
Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 2020 The purpose of this study was to develop and validate the Causality Orientations at Work Scale, which is based on self-determination theory. Bank employees (N = 201) and dental hygienists (N = 299) completed measures of autonomy-, control-, and ...
Hallgeir Halvari, Anja Olafsen
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Psychometric properties of the Flourishing Scale for South African first-year students
African Journal of Psychological Assessment, 2023 This study focused on a positive construct of well-being, namely flourishing. In a multicultural and diverse country such as South Africa, it is a legal requirement to provide evidence that measures of psychological constructs, like flourishing, are fair,
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Learning styles inventories: an update of coffield, moseley, hall, & ecclestone`s reliability and validity matrix [PDF]
, 2018 Introduction. One of the many notions that have been introduced in education in the last 50 years is that of learning styles. This idea is very popular and enjoys good acceptance.
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Physical activity and affect of the elderly: Contribution to the validation of the Positive and Negative Affect Shedule (PANAS) in the Portuguese population [PDF]
, 2019 The concept of affect corresponds to the emotional dimension of subjective well-being (Diener, Emmons, Larsen, & Griffin, 1985). It is represented by two dimensions (negative affect and positive affect), which were the basis of the development of the ...
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METHODS FOR TESTING DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY [PDF]
Management & Marketing, 2011 The study presents three methods which can be used to assess discriminant validity for multi-item scales. Q-sorting is presented as a method that can be used in early stages of research, being more exploratory, while the chi-square difference test and ...
Adriana ZAIŢ, Patricea Elena BERTEA
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Parental involvement in sport:psychometric development and empirical test of a theoretical model [PDF]
, 2018 The purposes of the present multistudy were to develop and provide initial construct validity for measures based on the model of parental involvement in sport (Study 1) and examine structural relationships among the constructs of the model (Study 2).
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Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2021 South African universities have one of the lowest graduation rates in the world, especially amongstfirst-year university students. South Africa's first-year university students are taxed with tremendouschallenges.
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