Abstract: We developed and evaluated the YouthPower Action Youth Soft Skills Assessment (YAYSSA), a self-report soft skills measure. The YAYSSA targets 15- to 19-year-old youth in lower resource environments. In Study 1, we identified ...
Abstract: Many researchers use self-report data to examine abilities, personalities, or attitudes. At the same time, there is a widespread concern that response styles, such as the tendency to give extreme, midscale, or acquiescent ...
Abstract: The “Dirty Dozen” is a popular, brief, self-report scale to capture individual differences in the Dark Triad traits (i.e., narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy). While the scale has good psychometric properties, there ...
Abstract: Guilt is an important correlate of the food choices parents make for their children. However, without a validated self-report measure of feeding-related guilt, researchers remain unable to reliably assess its consequences for ...
Abstract: Childfree adults do not have or want children and voluntarily opt out of parenthood. Although this group is large (more than one-fifth of some adult populations), its members are often subjected to negative stereotypes about ...
Abstract: Although the eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS) is a widely used measure of eHealth literacy (eHL), it has not been validated in a diverse sample of US adolescents. This study assessed the construct validity and item and measurement ...
Summary: We contrasted models of self-regulating learning (SRL) and achievement based on self reports versus traces of studying tactics gathered by software that undergraduates used to study a text. Self-reported use of study tactics differed from traces ...
Abstract: Despite the increased relevance of crime and sentencing in the realm of public debate and politics, investigations in public or judicial attitudes towards punishment have been rare in Germany. Social psychology can contribute to the ...
This article aims at validating a French measure of psychological empowerment at work, following Spreitzer’s (1995) four-dimensional conceptualization. To do so, this instrument was administered to three samples of Canadian workers. Study 1 (N = 120) ...
This study extends prior research on the Picture Anxiety Test (PAT; Dubi & Schneider, 2009) in clinical samples, by examining psychometric properties and acceptance in a community sample of 153 4–8-year-old children. Children completed the PAT and the ...
Quality of life in children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders - Results of the first multicenter-Study with the ILKSummary:Objective: A newly developed, disorder-nonspecific instrument to measure the quality of life in children and adolescents (...
Accuracy of self-reports: Validating the General Ecological Behavior scaleAbstract.Self-reports are often discredited as poor indicators of actual behavior. The present study aims at comparing subjective and observable, objective indicators of ecological ...
Developmental levels of sociomoral reasoning: German version of the Sociomoral Reflection Measure - Short formAbstract. Using standardized questionnaires for the assessment of individuals’ developmental level of sociomoral reasoning is inappropriate in ...
Development of an environmental knowledge measure: An application of the MRCML modelAbstract. Although accredited as a theoretically influential predictor of ecological behavior, environmental knowledge is generally neglected as a methodological issue. ...
On the economic measurement of occupational self-efficacy expectations - a new BSW ScaleAbstract. After reviewing current scales of career-related self-efficacy we present a new scale that taps general occupational self-efficacy. The six item scale was ...
Effects of goal-oriented interventions - development and validation of a Goal Setting Questionnaire (ZVB)Abstract. Organizations are goal-oriented systems, and goal-setting interventions and related systems are of growing importance. Such systems are ...
Zusammenfassung. Implizite Gedächtnistests tendieren dazu, weniger reliabel als explizite Gedächtnistests zu sein. Daraus folgt, dass Dissoziationen aufgrund unterschiedlicher Reliabilität der Aufgabe zustande kommen können. In der vorliegenden Studie ...
Handling of Item Positions Effects in the Development of Computerized Adaptive TestsAbstract. In computerized adaptive testing (CAT), item parameter estimates are assumed to be known and valid for all the positions that items can be presented on in the ...
CAST in German: Translation and Validation of the Comprehensive Assessment of Sadistic TendenciesAbstract. Sadism predicts dysfunctional social behavior and has been extensively researched in the clinical context. Recently however, ...
Personality psychology: Current state and future prospectsAbstract. It is shown that Personality Psychology is an interdisciplinary and currently highly dynamic field of psychology. This is illustrated exemplarily for six fields of research: (a) ...