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The attitudes to ageing questionnaire: Mokken scaling analysis.

PLoS ONE, 2014
BackgroundHierarchical scales are useful in understanding the structure of underlying latent traits in many questionnaires. The Attitudes to Ageing Questionnaire (AAQ) explored the attitudes to ageing of older people themselves, and originally described ...
Susan D Shenkin, Roger Watson, Ken Laidlaw, John M Starr, Ian J Deary   +4 more
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Mokken Scale Analysis in R [PDF]

Journal of Statistical Software, 2007
Mokken scale analysis (MSA) is a scaling procedure for both dichotomous and polytomous items. It consists of an item selection algorithm to partition a set of items into Mokken scales and several methods to check the assumptions of two nonparametric item
L. Andries van der Ark
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New Developments in Mokken Scale Analysis in R [PDF]

Journal of Statistical Software, 2012
Mokken (1971) developed a scaling procedure for both dichotomous and polytomous items that was later coined Mokken scale analysis (MSA). MSA has been developed ever since, and the developments until 2000 have been implemented in the software package MSP (
L. Andries van der Ark
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Measuring Reasons for Unfinished Nursing Care as Perceived by Community Care Nurses: A Binational Development and Validation Study. [PDF]

Public Health Nurs
ABSTRACT Objective To develop and validate the Unfinished Community Nursing Care Reasons Survey (UCNC_RS) transnationally and compare Unfinished Nursing Care (UNC) reasons across countries. Design This development and validation study was conducted in Israel and Italy, following the COnsensus‐based Standards for the selection of health Measurement ...
Chiappinotto S, Srulovici E, Palacios Klein G, Khatib N, Bayram A, Grassetti L, Drach-Zahavy A, Palese A.   +7 more
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Psychometric Properties of the Choosing Wisely Questions in a Large Psychiatric Sample. [PDF]

Int J Methods Psychiatr Res
ABSTRACT Objectives The Choosing Wisely Questions (CWQ) support shared decision‐making and aim to reduce low‐value care, but their psychometric properties remain unclear. This study evaluated the structural validity, reliability, and item characteristics of the Swedish CWQ in a psychiatric sample.
Bengtsson J, Andersson A, Forss Lilja N, Hultgren Farsani I, Lissbrant E, Wettermark B, Blomqvist I.   +6 more
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Assessing the cognitive component of subjective well-being: Revisiting the satisfaction with life scale with classical test theory and item response theory

African Journal of Psychological Assessment, 2022
Life satisfaction is generally regarded as the cognitive component of subjective well-being, as opposed to positive and negative affect, which are regarded as the affective components. This topic has been extensively studied worldwide and has been linked
Tyrone B. Pretorius, Anita Padmanabhanunni   +1 more
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Turkish Version of the Unfinished Nursing Care Survey: Validity and Reliability Data. [PDF]

J Nurs Manag
Background Measuring unfinished nursing care (UNC) with valid and reliable instruments is essential for identifying systemic issues and improving patient safety and outcomes. The Unfinished Nursing Care Survey (UNCS) was developed as a comprehensive, valid, and reliable tool.
Özsaban A, Taskiran Eskici G, Palese A, Grassetti L, Bassi E.   +4 more
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Theoretical and Practical Foundations of Mokken Scale Analysis in Psychology [PDF]

Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto), 2022
Item Response Theory represents one of the major advances in the field of developing valid and reliable measures in psychology. Among the main models used in this perspective are the Rasch model and the logistic models.
Víthor Rosa Franco, Jacob Arie Laros, Rafael Valdece Sousa Bastos   +2 more
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Simplified Post-stroke Functioning Assessment Based on ICF via Dichotomous Mokken Scale Analysis and Rasch Modeling

Frontiers in Neurology, 2022
PurposeThis study aims to accomplish two tasks for International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) application among persons with stroke: (1) to make an ICF tool for measuring personal abilities with simplified assessment ...
Chun Feng, Zhong-Li Jiang, Ming-Xue Sun, Feng Lin   +3 more
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Short version of the Scale for Interpersonal Behavior: Slovak translation and psychometric analysis

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Assertiveness is a social communication skill and is related to the effectiveness of expressing oneself while respecting others. A lack of assertiveness is associated with various mental illnesses; hence the importance of being able to measure it ...
Viktória Vráblová, Júlia Halamová
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