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Enhancing Model Fit Evaluation in SEM: Practical Tips for Optimizing Chi-Square Tests
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Bang Quan Zheng; Peter M. Bentler – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2025
This paper aims to advocate for a balanced approach to model fit evaluation in structural equation modeling (SEM). The ongoing debate surrounding chi-square test statistics and fit indices has been characterized by ambiguity and controversy. Despite the acknowledged limitations of relying solely on the chi-square test, its careful application can…
Descriptors: Monte Carlo Methods, Structural Equation Models, Goodness of Fit, Robustness (Statistics)
Are the Signs of Factor Loadings Arbitrary in Confirmatory Factor Analysis? Problems and Solutions
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Dandan Tang; Steven M. Boker; Xin Tong – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2025
The replication crisis in social and behavioral sciences has raised concerns about the reliability and validity of empirical studies. While research in the literature has explored contributing factors to this crisis, the issues related to analytical tools have received less attention. This study focuses on a widely used analytical tool -…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Factor Analysis, Replication (Evaluation), Social Science Research
Signal-to-Noise Ratio in Estimating and Testing the Mediation Effect: Structural Equation Modeling versus Path Analysis with Weighted Composites
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Ke-Hai Yuan; Zhiyong Zhang; Lijuan Wang – Grantee Submission, 2024
Mediation analysis plays an important role in understanding causal processes in social and behavioral sciences. While path analysis with composite scores was criticized to yield biased parameter estimates when variables contain measurement errors, recent literature has pointed out that the population values of parameters of latent-variable models…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Path Analysis, Weighted Scores, Comparative Testing
Development of Social Media Addiction Test (SMAT17)
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Esgi, Necmi – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
The aim of this study was to develop a test for assessing individuals' social media addiction; and conducting a reliability and validity study of this scale. Sample for this study was composed of 285 college students between the ages of 18 and 25. Reliability coefficients Cronbach's alpha value was 0.94 and Spearman Brown value was 0.91 for our…
Descriptors: Social Media, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Addictive Behavior
Replication and Robustness in Developmental Research
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Duncan, Greg J.; Engel, Mimi; Claessens, Amy; Dowsett, Chantelle J. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Replications and robustness checks are key elements of the scientific method and a staple in many disciplines. However, leading journals in developmental psychology rarely include explicit replications of prior research conducted by different investigators, and few require authors to establish in their articles or online appendices that their key…
Descriptors: Replication (Evaluation), Robustness (Statistics), Developmental Psychology, Educational Research
Development of a Five-Dimensional Measure of Adult Sleep Quality
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Fortunato, Vincent J.; LeBourgeois, Monique K.; Harsh, John – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2008
This article describes the development of a measure of adult sleep quality: the Adult Sleep-Wake Scale (ADSWS). The ADSWS is a self-report pencil-and-paper measure of sleep quality consisting of five behavioral dimensions (Going to Bed, Falling Asleep, Maintaining Sleep, Reinitiating Sleep, and Returning to Wakefulness). Data were collected from…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Test Validity, Sleep, Personality Traits