“We wish to have a say!” – Development and validation of scales to assess motivational regulation for the participation in surveys for the evaluation of studies (SMR-Eval)Abstract: Evaluation and quality assurance in higher education often ...
Abstract:Introduction: Japanese elite athletes were affected by the spread of COVID-19 infection. Four years after the pandemic, COVID-19 is still spreading and subsiding, and it is expected that some athletes are still concerned about COVID-19. ...
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: The use of inverted items is under vigorous debate in psychometric research. However, especially in the field of the Dark Tetrad – a compound of the aversive yet subclinical traits Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, and ...
Background: A number of medical and societal factors currently contribute to an increasing number of women who are hospitalised because they are experiencing high-risk pregnancies. The unpredictability of the further course of pregnancy may lead to a ...
Abstract. The present study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Math Homework Purpose Scale (MHPS). After randomly splitting the sample (N = 854) into two subsamples (n = 427 and n = 427), we carried out exploratory factor analysis (EFA) on ...
Erikson already emphasized the importance of remaining generative in old age. Current instruments designed to measure generativity, however, were developed to be used with middle-aged adults. In a sample of older adults (N = 195), three newly developed ...
Aims: To develop a new German-language
alcohol expectancy measure.
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Method: Factor structure, internal
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Results: Principal
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Zusammenfassung. In dem vorliegenden Beitrag wird über die Entwicklung eines umfassenden Fragebogens zum Leseerleben berichtet. Eine Untersuchung zur Itemselektion anhand einer studentischen Stichprobe ergibt 77 Items, die sich auf die folgenden 14 ...
Inventory for Job Coping and Return Intention (JoCoRi)Abstract. Long-term work disability, delayed return to work, and early retirement due to work-related psychological difficulties cause problems in health economics. To date, a specific inventory that ...
Ambivalent Sexism Toward Teenage Girls. Validation of a German-Language Scale for Adolescents and Young AdultsAbstract: According to the concept of ambivalent sexism, males’ superior status is bolstered by an ideology asserting ...
Zusammenfassung. Zielsetzung der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Konstruktion und Validierung einer Skala zur Erfassung der aktuell wahrgenommenen körperlichen Verfassung. Auf der Basis eines durch Experten bewerteten Adjektivpools wurde eine 48 Items ...
Abstract. We studied psychometric properties of the SELF with 223 college students. The SELF assesses students' self-efficacy beliefs regarding their use of specific self-regulatory processes in various areas of academic functioning. To determine the ...
This paper reports the development of a short version of the trendsetting questionnaire (TDS; Batinic, Haupt, & Wieselhuber, 2006). According to Batinic et al., individuals high on trendsetting keep an eye open for new trends and have a broad interest in ...
A 10-item instrument for the assessment of probable migration-related stressors was developed based on previous work (MIGSTR10) and interrater reliability was tested in a chart review study. The MIGSTR10 and nine nonspecific stressors of the DSM-IV Axis ...
Abstract. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the expression of items used to examine personal epistemological beliefs could affect the probabilities of response for compared groups and research outcomes. Differential-item-...
Abstract. The purpose of this study is to describe the development and validation of a scale designed to measure academic resilience in mathematics (ARM). The ARM scale includes nine items and was administered to 528 7th and 8th grade ...
Abstract. The growing use of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) in performance contexts (e.g., business, sport) has highlighted the absence of a contextually valid and reliable measure of irrational beliefs. This paper reports the ...
Abstract. Workplace mobbing is a serious phenomenon that is costly to organizations and has various negative consequences of those targeted. The main purpose of the present study was to develop and validate a new short scale of workplace ...
Abstract. This research outlines the development and validation of a new self-report measure to assess the tendency to use different interpersonal affect improvement strategies within the normal adult population (Interpersonal Affect ...