Abstract: The present research aims to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Romanian version of the thriving at work scale (TWS). Three studies were conducted to test the reliability and validity of the TWS. The first study (N = 451)...
Summary: Since Sackett and Dreher published their «some troubling empirical findings» in 1982, the construct validity of assessment centers has often been called in question. Several multitrait-multimethod analyses showed that convergent and discriminant ...
Reliability and Validity of the German Coping Questionnaire for Children and AdolescentsSummary: Coping styles are assessed by the German Coping Questionnaire for children and adolescents (SVF-KJ) aged between 8 and 13 years. Five stress reducing and ...
Test Anxiety: The Relevance of Anxiety Facets as well as School SubjectsSummary: One major focus of test anxiety research has been the distinction of different anxiety components (e.g., worry, emotionality). Recently the distinction of different content ...
Reading Comprehension Without Reading? On the Construct Validity of Multiple-Choice Reading Comprehension Test ItemsAbstract. The construct-validity of multiple-choice test items of reading comprehension was repeatedly criticized. These multiple-choice ...
Cognitive Processing of Reading Comprehension Items with and without TextMultiple choice (MC)-items are a frequently employed format used to measure reading comprehension. In a study with 366 students we replicate the finding of Rost and Sparfeldt (2007) ...
Teacher self-efficacy (TSE) is an important construct in the prediction of positive student and teacher outcomes. However, problems with its measurement have persisted, often through confounding TSE with other constructs. This research introduces an ...
Construct Validity of a Universal Screener to Economically Assess Students' Behavior in the Classroom – a Multitrait-Multimethod-AnalysisAbstract. This study examines the construct validity of a 16-item version of ...
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 ...
Internal consistency and construct validity of the Quality of Life measurement in dementia QUALIDEM – a secondary data analysis of cross-sectional dataAbstract. Background: Maintaining and improving the Quality of Life (QoL)...
Bei der Entwicklung der Verfahren der Testbatterie Wahrnehmungs- und Aufmerksamkeitsfunktionen (WAF: Sturm, 2006) kommt der theoriegeleiteten Operationalisierung einer aktuellen Aufmerksamkeitstaxonomie (vgl. Van Zomeren & Brouwer, 1994; Posner und ...
This study examines the psychometric properties of the French-version of the Partnership Questionnaire (PFB) and compares this questionnaire with the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS). 225 couples, married or living together for at least 3 years, participated ...
<span class="fett">Aims:</span> The study aimed to validate the Severity of Dependence Scale (SDS) in a sample of 18- to 64-year-old cannabis users in Germany. Data from current cannabis users were analysed to determine an optimal cut-off point that ...
Aims: Previous studies revealed
that alcohol expectancies are related
to the level of alcohol use. The
present study seeks to replicate these
findings and to expand previous research
by comparing alcohol-dependent
individuals and non-clinical
...
The questionnaire on child guidance and family counseling (FEF): Development of a method of evaluationAbstract. Stimulated by discussions on quality management and in the tradition of psychotherapy research, efforts to evaluate in the area of child ...
Facets of academic self-concept - Validity of the Differential Self-Concept Grid (DISC-Grid)Abstract. This study examines the validity of the Differential Self-Concept Grid (DISC-Grid; Rost & Sparfeldt, 2002), an instrument to measure subject-specific ...
Guiding future item development via predicting English as a foreign language item difficulties by Dutch Grid characteristicsAbstract. The present study focuses on the construct validity of English as a foreign language reading and listening comprehension ...
The German Coping Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (SVF-KJ): Modifications and Further Results on ValidityAbstract. Academic and social coping dispositions are measured by the German Coping Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (SVF-KJ), ...
A Psychometric Evaluation of the German Version of the Self-Directed Search (SDS)Abstract. In this contribution, we psychometrically evaluated Explorix, an adaptation of John Holland’s Self-Directed Search (SDS) for German-speaking ...
Longitudinal Psychometric Analyses of the German Short Form of the Abbreviated Dyadic Adjustment Scale (ADAS). Results on Stability and ValidityAbstract: Short diagnostic instruments to assess the relationship quality are necessary ...
The Lateral Preference Inventory: The item homogeneity of the German versionAbstract. The Lateral Preference Inventory (LPI, Coren, 1993) is a questionnaire designed to measure lateral preference on the four dimensions of handedness, footedness, eyedness,...
Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, die deutschsprachige Version der Leadership Scale for Sports (LSS; 21 Items; 4 Faktoren; Würth, Sabarowski & Alfermann, 1999) auf ihre Testgüte zu überprüfen. Zur Validierung wurden N = 1523 Sportlerinnen und Sportler (M = 16.65,...
Two sides to a coin? Empirical overlapping between personality traits and assessment center dimensionsAbstract. The on-going professionalization in personnel selection results in a growing need to integrate diverse information from different diagnostic ...
Do selection interviews measure what they intend to measure? The impact of applicants’ cognitions about evaluated behaviorAbstract. Often, the objective of structured selection interviews is to assess different performance dimensions that are relevant ...
Zusammenfassung. Erstmals wurden in einer experimentellen Untersuchung 152 Teilnehmende an einem Assessment Center instruiert, sich flexibel, d. h. situationsangemessen oder sich charakterstark, d. h. prinzipientreu zu verhalten. In einer ...
Abstract. In their meta-analysis on the construct validity of assessment centers (ACs), Woehr and Arthur (2003) found that within-dimension ratings of candidates’ performance had better construct validity than within-exercise ratings. However, this ...
Summary: Previous research has identified instrumentality and ideology as important aspects of member attachment to labor unions. The present study evaluated the construct validity of a scale designed to reflect the two dimensions of instrumental and ...
Summary The present study establishes the validity of the Dutch translation of the EDI-2 by determining its factor structure, construct validity and its effectiveness for screening using a clinical and two nonclinical populations. An earlier study had ...
Self-concept is accessible information that can be used when facing a demanding task. Based on findings suggesting that effects observed in Implicit Association Tests (IATs) could be partially explained by the procedural features of the task, we ...
Testing the construct validity of the three DSM-IV cluster groupings of personality disorders, in terms of neuropsychological, psychophysiological, and personality traits measures, was the purpose of this study. The results hardly confirm significant ...
Abstract: This study examined the influence on construct validity of implementing the triad Feeling, Thinking, and Power as a taxonomy for behavioral dimensions in assessment center (AC) exercises. A sample of 1567 job applicants participated in an AC ...
Summary: Burnout has become a serious matter in workplace health, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) is today the most widely used instrument for assessing the construct empirically. The present study examined the construct validity of a Swedish ...
The objective was to study the construct validity of the MOS SF-36 (Medical Outcome Study, short form questionnaire, version of 36 items) using structural equation modeling (SEM). Despite the widespread use of the questionnaire, several problems with the ...
Abstract. The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) assesses adaptive and problematic behavior in children and adolescents (Goodman, 1997). The aim of this study was to test the construct validity of a French translation of the scale. Teachers ...
Difficulties controlling one’s thoughts have been related to several psychopathological states and are core issues in clinical evaluation and treatment. For this reason, Luciano, Algarabel, Tomás, and Martínez (2005) developed the Thought Control Ability ...
In this study we evaluated a German version (EPP-D) of the Eysenck Personality Profiler (EPP). The EPP measures 21 traits, seven for each of Eysenck’s superfactors Extraversion, Emotionality (Neuroticism), and Adventure/Caution (Psychoticism). Each of ...
In an effort to remove a presumed confound of extrapersonal associations, Olson and Fazio (2004) introduced procedural modifications to attitude versions of the Implicit Association Test (IAT). We hypothesized that the procedural changes increased the ...
This study is a construct validation of a profession-focused personality questionnaire (PQ), based on the Big Five, and developed for a military population and military context. The sample (N = 363) consisted of participants selected for international ...
The present study examined the psychometric properties of the TEA Personality Test (TPT) in a sample of 23,062 Spanish adults. The TPT is a self-report questionnaire to be answered using a four-point Likert scale to assess personality at work and it is ...
Both clinicians and researchers agree on the value of self-report in child mental health assessment. The pictorial format of the computerized Dominic Interactive is an addition to the existing questionnaires, specifically concerning young children. ...
Gosling, Rentfrow, and Swann (2003) developed the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) to meet the need of very short measures of the Big Five for time-limited contexts or large survey questionnaires. In this paper we show the inadequacy of the Italian ...
Abstract. Studies on the construct validity of the Self-Description Questionnaire II (SDQII) have not compared the factor structure between the English and Chinese versions of the SDQII. By using rigorous multiple group comparison ...
Abstract. Aim of the present study was to examine the construct validity of the trauma-related coping self-efficacy (CSE) scale. While assessing the psychometric properties of this 20-item scale among four different samples (514 victims of ...
Abstract. Despite the wide use of the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (ECBI), its construct validity is still an issue of debate. Whereas previous studies primarily have relied on confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs), the present study ...
Abstract. The ability to recognize other people’s emotions from their face, voice, and body (emotion recognition ability, ERA) is crucial to successful functioning in private and professional life. The Geneva Emotion Recognition Test (GERT;...
Abstract. Recent research on individual differences in mind wandering has shown that two different forms, spontaneous and deliberate, can be distinguished and measured with the Mind Wandering-Spontaneous (MW-S) and the Mind Wandering-...
Abstract. The Grit scale is a popular measure of achievement-striving behavior. Consisting of two subscales, Consistency of Interests (CI) and Perseverance of Effort (PE), this scale has been repeatedly demonstrated to have high ...
Abstract. Humor research has intensified in psychology over the last two decades, with the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ) being the most prevalent measure. Still, the construct validity of its four scales (affiliative, self-enhancing, ...
Abstract. Cyberaggression and cybervictimization have gained momentum as a research focus given associated mental health sequelae. To date, however, there remains little consensus on the conceptualization and measurement of these ...
Abstract. The cube construction task represents a novel format in the assessment of spatial ability through mental cube rotation tasks. Instead of selecting the correct answer from several response options, respondents construct their own ...
Abstract. The common factor model – by far the most widely used model for factor analysis – assumes equal item intercepts across respondents. Due to idiosyncratic ways of understanding and answering items of a questionnaire, this ...
Abstract. Although job crafting finds widespread application as a leading approach to bottom-up work design, the foundation of the construct is rather shaky: two different theoretical perspectives exist within the research field that have ...
Abstract. In two qualitative evaluation studies, we explored the construct validity of two diagrammatic measures of attachment network structure, including the Bull’s Eye diagrammatic technique and a significantly modified version, the Web-...
In a field study conducted in a multi-ethnic selection setting at the Dutch police, we examined the construct validity of a video-based situational judgment test (SJT) aimed to measure the construct of integrity. Integrity is of central importance to ...
The Fairy Tale Test (FTT) is a projective personality measure that provides a comprehensive evaluation of the child’s personality. The test consists of 21 cards that depict popular fairy tale characters that are administered in sets of three. Having three ...
Abstract. The study reports results regarding the dimensionality and construct validity of a newly developed, objective, video-based personality test that assesses the willingness to take risks in traffic situations. On the basis of the theory of risk ...
After a long debate there is now growing agreement that implicit and explicit achievement motivation can be seen as distinct constructs. One of their major differences lies in their predictive validity, which supposedly differs depending on the setting. ...
Short scales have become widely used in settings in which participant time is limited and when assessment would otherwise be impossible. Based on simulated data on the population level we investigate whether scale shortening affects the desired invariance ...
Abstract. Conventional self-report measures are prone to response biases, which distort measurement in any applied assessment. The forced-choice (FC) format was proposed as a potential remedy for these biases. The purpose of these studies was to develop ...
Abstract. The present study empirically tests a bimodal model of humor appreciation. In this model, individual differences in evaluating jokes and cartoons are attributed to their contents (sexual and aggressive) and structures (incongruity-resolution ...
Content validity elicits expert opinion regarding items of a psychometric instrument. Expert opinion can be elicited in many forms: for example, how essential an item is or its relevancy to a domain. This study developed an alternative tool ...
Social and behavioral scientists often measure constructs that are truly discrete counts by collapsing (or binning) the counts into a smaller number of ordinal responses. While prior quantitative research has identified a series of concerns with similar ...
Abstract. Recent theoretical and methodological innovations suggest a distinction between implicit and explicit evaluations. We applied Campbell and Fiske's (1959) classic multitrait-multimethod design precepts to test the construct validity of implicit ...
Abstract. Beliefs in conspiracy theories, generally considered to be a unidimensional construct, are associated with negative outcomes. The existing measures of conspiracy theory beliefs have number of shortcomings. We present the ...
Advances in computer technology have created opportunities for the development of a multimedia situational test in which responses are filmed with a webcam. This paper examined the relationship of a so-called webcam test with personality, cognitive ...
This research presents an in-depth investigation of the core self-evaluations (CSE) construct in several German samples. The English language (U.S.-American) version of the Core Self-Evaluations Scale (CSES; see Judge, Erez, Bono, & Thoresen, 2003) was ...
Abstract. This paper describes the construction and empirical evaluation of an instrument for measuring state reactance, the Salzburger State Reactance (SSR) Scale. The results of a confirmatory factor analysis supported a hypothesized ...
Abstract: Romantic jealousy describes a feeling when individuals suspect losing their romantic partner to a potential rival. Social media has a high potential to trigger romantic jealousy as it offers almost ...