Results 141 to 150 of about 14,532 (300)

Critically Revisiting the Psychometric Properties of the EDE‐Q and Its Short Forms: Is It Time to Move On?

open access: yesEuropean Eating Disorders Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE‐Q) remains the most widely used self‐report measure of eating disorder symptoms, despite concerns regarding its factorial instability, construct redundancy, and local item dependence. Numerous brief versions have been proposed to address these limitations.
Rafael Moreton Alves da Rocha   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The need for invariant assessments in South African education

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Education, 2014
Presently, a plethora of instruments designed to assess a mathematical skill, disposition, or competence prevail in South Africa. Yet few of them adhere to the basic requirements of the unidimensionality and invariance of measures.
Graham A Dampier
doaj  

Integrating Diverse Perspectives for Safer Fire Designs: The Case for Convergence Research

open access: yesFire and Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A narrow view of fire safety often overlooks the complex web of factors that shape the real‐world risks for building occupants, community members, people in temporary shelter, and those without housing. Many studies examine individual components of fire safety, such as fire hazards, building performance, and human behavior.
Sandra Vaiciulyte, Brian Meacham
wiley   +1 more source

Programmable crack dynamics engineering enables flexible strain sensors with high linearity

open access: yesFlexMat, EarlyView.
First‐decoupling theoretical framework of crack evolution elucidating the control methods, mechanistic insights, and structure‐activity relationships is established. Crack propagation from uncontrollable randomness systematically evolves into spatially ordered states.
Chunjin Wu   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Initial evaluation of measurement properties of the Work Environment Impact Questionnaire (WEIQ) - using Rasch analysis

open access: yesHealth and Quality of Life Outcomes
Background To provide both preventive and rehabilitative conditions in a workplace, one must understand how employees experience work demands. Such an understanding can be obtained from each individual with valid and quality-assured questionnaires.
Elin Ekbladh, Moa Yngve, Jeanette Melin
doaj   +1 more source

The new meaning of retirement for bridge employees: Situating bridge employment through the lens of the Kaleidoscope Career Model

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 89-112, Spring 2025.
Abstract Retirees re‐entering the workforce, popularly termed as bridge employment, is a phenomenon that is anticipated to increase in the coming years. Though research establishes that these employees have unique aspirations and work motives (see Mazumdar et al., 2020), primary research on how the retirement transition and bridge employment shape each
Bishakha Mazumdar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pursuing Leadership on One's Own Terms: A Human Resource Development Perspective on Leadership Aspiration, Identity, and Organizational Influence

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Leadership aspiration is not simply a product of ambition or capability, but a dynamic, context‐sensitive phenomenon shaped by how individuals understand leadership and whether pursuing it feels feasible, meaningful, and sustainable. Using phenomenographic analysis of semi‐structured interviews with 23 employees and drawing on Leadership ...
Bishakha Mazumdar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Formative and Reflective Measurement Models in Workplace Learning Research: A Critical Review and Guidelines

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Quantitative empirical research in workplace learning regularly makes use of measurement instruments that operationalize theoretical constructs. However, in domains related to workplace learning, high levels of measurement model misspecifications—up to 62% of all cases—have been identified.
Josef Guggemos, Michael Goller
wiley   +1 more source

On the Trail of Creativity: Dimensionality of Divergent Thinking and Its Relation With Cognitive Abilities, Personality, and Insight

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract Divergent thinking (DT) is an important constituent of creativity that captures aspects of fluency and originality. The literature lacks multivariate studies that report relationships between DT and its aspects with relevant covariates, such as cognitive abilities, personality traits (e.g. openness), and insight. In two multivariate studies (N 
S. Weiss   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Refinement of Stout's Procedure for Assessing Latent Trait Unidimensionality

open access: yes, 1987
Currently, the most popular method of measuring an individual's ability is based on Item Response Theory (IRT). One of the most critical assumptions on which this IRT methodology is based is "unidimensionality". In general this assumption means
Nandakumar, Ratna
core  

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy