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Alessandri, Guido; Vecchione, Michele; Fagnani, Corrado; Bentler, Peter M.; Barbaranelli, Claudio; Medda, Emanuela; Nistico, Lorenza; Stazi, Maria Antonietta; Caprara, Gian Vittorio – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
When a self-report instrument includes a balanced number of positively and negatively worded items, factor analysts often use method effect factors to aid model fitting. One of the most widely investigated sources of method effects stems from the respondent tendencies to agree with an item regardless of its content. The nature of these effects,…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Attitude Measures, Twins, Genetics
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South, Susan C.; Krueger, Robert F.; Iacono, William G. – Psychological Assessment, 2009
The Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS; G. B. Spanier, 1976) is the most widely used inventory of relationship satisfaction in the social sciences, yet the question of whether it is measuring the same concept in men and women has never been addressed. In the current study, the authors examined the factor structure of the DAS in a sample of 900 currently…
Descriptors: Measurement, Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals), Factor Analysis
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Dworzynski, Katharina; Happe, Francesca; Bolton, Patrick; Ronald, Angelica – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2009
Factor structure and relationship between core features of autism (social impairments, communication difficulties, and restricted, repetitive behaviours or interests (RRBIs)) were explored in 189 children from the Twins Early Development Study, diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs) using the Development and Wellbeing Assessment (DAWBA;…
Descriptors: Twins, Autism, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis