What Does the Wahl-O-Mat Measure? Testing the Validity of the Wahl-O-Mat as a Diagnostic Tool of Political Orientation via Explorative Factor AnalysisAbstract: The Wahl-O-Mat is an online tool for political education intended to ...
Abstract: The assessment of the Big Five personality domains is standard practice in most large-scale social surveys nowadays. The instrument most widely used for this purpose is the BFI-10, an ultra-short measure assessing each Big Five ...
Abstract: The Body and Appearance Self-Conscious Emotions Scale (BASES; Castonguay et al., 2014) measures the individual’s shame, guilt, authentic and hubristic pride related to their body and appearance. The purpose of this study was ...
Internal consistency and construct validity of the Quality of Life in Alzheimer's Disease (QoL-AD) proxy – a secondary data analysisAbstract. Background: The maintenance and promotion of Quality of Life (QoL) of people with dementia is a major outcome ...
Validation study of the Giessen Subjective Complaints List for Children (GSCL-C) in healthy and chronically ill adolescentsAbstract. This study examined the reliability (internal consistency), the factorial validity, and the criterion-oriented validity (...
Evaluation of the applicability of the NEO Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI - German version) to adolescents aged 14 to 16Abstract. The following study investigates the applicability of the NEO Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) to adolescents. The German ...
An evaluation of the Differential Test Anxiety Inventory (DAI) in a sample of university students: factorial validity and psychometric propertiesAbstract. This study investigates the psychometric properties and factorial validity of the Differential Test ...
A validation of the NEO-FFI in a sample of young adults: Effects of the response format, factorial validity, and relations with indicators of academic achievementAbstract. The German version of the NEO Five-Factor Inventory by Borkenau and Ostendorf (...
Measuring “Emotional Intelligence” With a Questionnaire? Incremental and Factorial Validity of the Widely Used TEIQue-ASFAbstract. Based on a sample of N = 711 German students attending the 6., 7., and 8. grade, the factorial validity of the Trait ...
Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life of Mentally Ill 8- to 11-Year-Old Children in the Context of Quality Assurance: An Investigation of the Factorial Structure of the Kid-KINDLAbstract. Health-related quality of life is an important ...
Factor Structure of Motor Competencies in First Graders: Results of the Movement ABC-2Abstract.Theoretical background: The development of motor skills during childhood is crucial to later health as well as to cognitive and socioemotional ...
Factor structure of the German Beck Depression Inventory, Second Edition (BDI-II)Abstract.Background: The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) has underwent a revision in 1996 (BDI-II) and has recently been published in German (Hautzinger et al., 2006). ...
The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is an internationally recognized and widely used screening instrument consisting of 25 items that address positive and negative behavioral attributes of children and adolescents. This paper investigates ...
This study investigates the latent structure and the psychometric characteristics of the attitudinal subscales of the Greek translation of the EDE-Q (G-EDE-Q) using two samples. The first sample consisted of 500 university female students and tested the ...
This study examined the factorial validity and reliability (Ωw) of the nonreversed, 44-item version of Ryff’s Psychological Well-Being Scale (PWBS; Ryff, 1989) on a Romanian convenience sample of 664 participants from the general population. The results ...
Abstract. The personality high-order concept of core self-evaluations (CSE), which refers to a basic evaluation of one’s worth, capability, and effectiveness, has attracted a lot of research interest. Yet little is known about the ...
Abstract. This study tested the factorial structure and equivalence of identity as measured by the Erikson Psychosocial Stage Inventory (EPSI; Rosenthal, Gurney, & Moore, 1981) in 2,666 adolescents (Mage = 16.53, SD = 1.50, 55% girls)...
Abstract. A growing body of studies has emphasized the need to consider method effects due to positively and negatively worded items for a better understanding of the factorial structure of psychological constructs. In particular, several ...
Abstract. Sense of coherence (SOC) describes an individual’s ability to deal with life challenges (manageability), comprehend the environment (comprehensibility), and perceive life and its challenges as meaningful (meaningfulness). We ...
Abstract. Factorial validity is often assessed using confirmatory factor analysis. Model fit is commonly evaluated using the cutoff values for the fit indices proposed by Hu and Bentler (1999). There is a body of research showing that ...