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Katherine Hales; Martin F. Sherman; Laura Shannonhouse; Bradley T. Erford – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2024
Objective: This study explored the structure validity and sex and country measurement invariance for Filipino and U.S. adults using the Five Factor Wellness Inventory (FFWEL-A2). Method: Confirmatory factor analysis and measurement invariance were conducted to determine consistency of responses across sex and country categories. Factorial ANOVAs…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Personality Measures, Measurement
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Cristian Zanon; Makilim N. Baptista; Mark Rubin; Nursel Topkaya; Ertugrul Sahin; Rachel E. Brenner; David L. Vogel; Winnie W. S. Mak – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2024
This study presents a reduced version of the Perception of Family Support Scale (PFSS)--a measure of family support designed for research and clinical purposes--and examine construct validity, invariance, and reliability evidence for scores obtained from the instrument. Data collection occurred in 2019. Using exploratory and confirmatory factor…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Social Support Groups, Psychometrics, Foreign Countries
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Fietzer, Alexander W.; Black, Natasha; Ponterotto, Joseph G.; Magaldi, Danielle; Lipari, Kristen; Pratt, Andrea; Dillon, Gary L. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2020
We report the development and validation of the Multicultural Personality Inventory -- Short Form (MPI-SF). Results supported the correlated seven-factor model with a sample of 333 college students. Scores from MPI-SF factors were internally consistent, temporally stable over a one- and two-month period, and predicted variance in college…
Descriptors: Validity, Personality Measures, Student Adjustment, Prediction
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Smith, Martin M.; Saklofske, Donald H.; Yan, Gonggu; Sherry, Simon B. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2016
This study supports the generalizability of perfectionistic strivings and concerns across Canadian and Chinese university students (N = 1,006) and demonstrates the importance of establishing measurement invariance prior to hypothesis testing with different groups. No latent mean difference in perfectionistic concerns was observed, but Canadian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Personality Traits, Hypothesis Testing
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Özdikmenli-Demir, Gözde; Demir, Serdar – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2014
The validity and reliability of the Scale of Ethnocultural Empathy (SEE) was tested using a sample of 348 emerging adult university students living in Turkey. Different from the original scale's four-factor structure, results of principal components analyses and confirmatory factor analyses exposed that there were three factors explaining 45% of…
Descriptors: Empathy, Psychometrics, Test Validity, Test Reliability
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Canel-Cinarbas, Deniz; Cui, Ying; Lauridsen, Erica – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2011
The purpose of this study was to test the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) for factorial invariance across Turkish and U.S. college student samples. The results indicated that (a) a two-factor model has an adequate fit for both samples, thus providing evidence of configural invariance, and (b) there is a metric invariance but "no"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence, Factor Structure, Depression (Psychology)