Abstract. A probit multistate Item Response Theory (IRT) model for ordinal response variables is introduced. It comprises a reference latent state variable for each occasion of measurement and a latent item effect variable for each item ...
Abstract: Teacher students’ professional educational knowledge is of great importance in academic teacher education. In response to the need to continuously optimize and improve teacher education, we developed a standards-based test ...
Abstract: The Core Self-Evaluations Scale (CSES) measures a broad personality trait reflecting individuals’ self-appraisals of their worth, capabilities, and control of their lives. Although the CSES was designed to capture a single trait, ...
The present paper reexamines the psychometric properties of the Quality Perception Questionnaire (QPQ), an Italian survey instrument measuring patients’ perceptions of the quality of a recent hospital admission experience, in a sample of 4400 patients (M...
Zusammenfassung. In einer Stichprobe von 223 Männern und Frauen aus der Bad Schönborn-Studie (Alter zum 1. Messzeitpunkt: 33-56 Jahre) wurden in einer Längsschnittstudie (Abstand von Erst- und Zweitmessung: 5 Jahre) biopsychosoziale Hypothesen zur ...
Confirmatory Analysis of the SF-12 Version 2.0 Scale Structure in a Representative German SampleAbstract. The SF-12 questionnaire is the short version of the SF-36 Health Survey, which is mainly used for the generic collection of data on health-related ...
Handling of missing data in psychological research: Problems and solutionsAbstract. Missing data are a pervasive problem in empirical psychological research. From the methodological perspective, traditional procedures such as Casewise and Pairwise ...
Meta-Analytical Structural Equation Modeling. Potentials and Limitations Illustrated with an Example from Organizational PsychologyAbstract. Meta-analyses are a important part of the methodological inventory for the synthesis of ...
Zusammenfassung. Die prospektive Studie dient der Überprüfung eines systemischen Anforderungs-Ressourcen-Modells der körperlichen Gesundheit. Untersucht wurden 276 nach Zufall ausgewählte Erwachsene im Alter von 17 bis 70 Jahren. Sie beantworteten das ...
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 ...
Die Selbstwirksamkeitsüberzeugung fördert die Leistung im Sport (Feltz, 1988). Sie beruht auf der Wahrnehmung eigener Fähigkeiten und Fertigkeiten, anstehende Aufgaben erfolgreich zu bewältigen (Bandura, 1977). Zur Leistungsprognose und Talentdiagnostik ...
Abstract.Background: Only recently has interoception been discussed as a common risk factor for psychopathology. Recent approaches distinguish between the ability to accurately perceive (interoceptive accuracy) and the propensity to ...
Summary: This contribution investigates the psychometric properties of two scales for measuring family cohesion and mother-daughter attachment. The scales were administered to 206 adult female subjects on three occasions of measurement 9 months apart. ...
Summary: A sample of 221 adolescents and their parents were asked to complete the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI; Davis, 1980), which is comprised of four subscales: empathic concern, perspective taking, fantasy, and personal distress; and a global-...
This study presents a scale developed to measure two dimensions of environmental perceptions—reactions towards preservation and towards utilizing nature and/or the environment—consisting of two and three subscales, respectively. The empirical part ...
Abstract.Background: Identification of factors that predict and protect against attempted suicide are critical for the development of effective suicide prevention and intervention programs. Aims: To examine whether ...
Summary: This study analyzed the relationships among Cattellian personality factors, scholastic aptitudes, study habits, and academic achievement. A total of 887 volunteer students from primary education (453 males and 434 females), enrolled in 29 public ...
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 ...
The distinction between task and relationship conflict is well established. Based on Jehn’s (1995) intragroup conflict scale, we developed an economic six-item questionnaire for assessing relationship and task conflict in work groups. Confirmatory factor ...
Abstract. Need for Cognition (NFC) is increasingly investigated in educational research. In contrast to other noncognitive constructs in this area, such as academic self-concept and interest, NFC has consistently been conceptualized as ...
Abstract. Measurement invaraiance is a key concept in psychological assessment and a fundamental prerequisite for meaningful comparisons across groups. In the prevalent approach, multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA), specific ...
Abstract. Learning progress assessments (LPA) are increasingly used by teachers to inform instructional decisions. This study presents evidence for the reliability, validity, and measurement invariance of a newly developed LPA for reading ...
We use a statistical model that combines longitudinal and survival analyses to estimate the influence of level and change in cognition on age at death in old and very old individuals. Data are from the Berlin Aging Study, in which an initial sample of 516 ...
University dropout is a politically and economically important factor. While a number of studies address this issue cross-sectionally by analyzing different cohorts, or retrospectively via questionnaires, few of them are truly longitudinal and focus on ...
This research is new in its attempt to take future time orientation, morningness orientation, and prospective memory as measures of mental prospection, and to examine a three-factor model that assumes working memory, mental prospection, and cognitive ...
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 ...
Abstract. Although both individual and average causal effects are defined in Rubin's approach to causality, in this tradition almost all papers center around learning about the average causal effects. Almost no efforts deal with developing designs and ...
Abstract. Incremental fit indices (IFIs) are regularly used when assessing the fit of structural equation models. IFIs are based on the comparison of the fit of a target model with that of a null model. For maximum-likelihood estimation, IFIs are usually ...
This article presents a model for investigating the effects of general and specific processes on intelligence as criterion variable. The model enables the representation of the processes as exogenous latent variables that predict the criterion, that is, ...
The classical multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) matrix can be viewed as a two-dimensional cross-classification of traits and methods. Beside commonly used analysis methods such as structural equation modeling and generalizability theory, multilevel analysis ...
Multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) data are characterized by three modes: traits, methods, and subjects. Considering subjects as random, and traits and methods as fixed, stochastic three-mode models can be used to analyze MTMM covariance data. Stochastic three-...
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 ...
Probability-based and measurement-related hypotheses for confirmatory factor analysis of repeated-measures data are investigated. Such hypotheses comprise precise assumptions concerning the relationships among the true components associated with the ...
Coefficient alpha (α) has been described as a lower bound for test reliability. However, previous research indicates that when certain assumptions are violated, α can either overestimate or underestimate reliability. Raykov (1997a) has shown how ...
Different methods are reviewed for estimating reliability based on a single administration of a test consisting of ordered categorical items. The nonlinear SEM reliability coefficient appears more flexible than other methods because it is designed to ...
Abstract. In repeated cross-sections of organizations, different individuals are sampled from the same set of organizations at each time point of measurement. As a result, common longitudinal data analysis methods (e.g., latent growth ...
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 ...
This study examined the role of sadness in the process of enjoying tragedy. Sadness, perceived reality, involvement, and enjoyment were measured after participants watched a sad film. The results from structural equation modeling (SEM) analyses indicated ...
Abstract. Binge-watching is a highly relevant new media phenomenon. An increasing number of people watch multiple episodes of their favorite series online, a process often spanning several hours. Granow et al. (2018) showed that binge-watching ...
Two attitude dichotomies – implicit versus explicit and affect versus cognition – are presumed to be related. Following a manipulation of attitudinal focus (affective or cognitive), participants completed two implicit measures (Implicit Association Test ...
Abstract. Although theorized and generally accepted, research on the relationship (specifically the direction of the causal relationship) between person-job fit and work engagement is limited and not yet clear. Theoretical arguments can be ...
Abstract. Common model fit indices behave poorly in structural equation models for experience sampling data which typically contain many manifest variables. In this article, we propose a block-wise fit assessment for large models as an alternative. The ...
Abstract. The objective of the present study was to examine whether different methods for dealing with dependency in meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) lead to different results. Four different methods for dealing with dependent effect ...
Abstract. Meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) combines the strengths of meta-analysis with the flexibility of path models to address multivariate research questions using summary statistics. Because many research ...
Abstract. In psychology and the social sciences, it is often of interest how complex structural relations among variables are moderated by profiles or combinations of persons’ attributes. Some state-of-the-art methods, such as latent ...
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic brought forth unique challenges for schools, requiring a sudden shift to remote learning. However, there have been no empirical studies examining the effects of the pandemic on school quality. This study ...