Abstract. Research of the Methodology Group at the Freie Universität Berlin focuses on subjective well-being, mood regulation, health psychology, and the development of new methods for the analysis of psychological data. In particular, we are interested ...
Summary:The present study of small- and medium-sized enterprises aimed to determine the reliability and validity of a measurement instrument for professional expertise. The instrument consists of five different scales (with contents ranging from 12 to 19 ...
Summary This study examined the factorial and convergent validity of the OLdenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI) and the Maslach Burnout Inventory - General Survey (MBI-GS) among 232 Greek employees from different occupational groups (e. g., banking and ...
Summary The object of the current study was to determine the convergent and discriminant validity of agents' and targets' reports on intraorganizational influence attempts with a structural equation model using latent state-trait analyses. To explain ...
The 15 items of the Mindful Attention and Awareness Scale (MAAS; Brown & Ryan, 2003) are negatively worded and assumed to assess mindfulness. However, there are indications of differences between the original MAAS and a version with the positively ...
Abstract. Virtually all studies on workaholism and engagement – two forms of heavy work investment – rely on self-part questionnaires. However, the limitations of self-reports are widely acknowledged and in their final sections, papers on ...
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. Work vigor is defined by cognitive, affective, and behavioral components. The purpose of this multi-study paper was to develop a French version of the Shirom-Melamed Vigor Measure (F-SMVM), and test its (a) construct validity (...
Influential individuals who shape the attitudes and behaviors of their peers are termed opinion leaders. The interpretability of research on opinion leadership, however, has frequently been hampered by the use of divergent instruments that follow either a ...
Many psychologists collect multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) data to assess the convergent and discriminant validity of psychological measures. In order to choose the most appropriate model, the types of methods applied have to be considered. It is shown how ...
Assessing construct validity is a core task in psychology. Since Campbell and Fiske’s (1959) seminal article on multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) analysis, several different methodological approaches for the analysis of convergent and discriminant validity of ...