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Using the Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scales-21 with U.S. Adolescents: An Alternate Models Analysis
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Moore, Stephanie A.; Dowdy, Erin; Furlong, Michael J. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2017
As part of universal screening efforts in schools, validated measures that identify internalizing distress are needed. One promising available measure, the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scales-21 (DASS-21), has yet to be thoroughly investigated with adolescents in the United States. This study investigated the underlying factor structure of the…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Anxiety, Stress Variables, Adolescents
Integrating Prospective Longitudinal Data: Modeling Personality and Health in the Terman Life Cycle and Hawaii Longitudinal Studies
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Kern, Margaret L.; Hampson, Sarah E.; Goldberg, Lewis R.; Friedman, Howard S. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
The present study used a collaborative framework to integrate 2 long-term prospective studies: the Terman Life Cycle Study and the Hawaii Personality and Health Longitudinal Study. Within a 5-factor personality-trait framework, teacher assessments of child personality were rationally and empirically aligned to establish similar factor structures…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Risk, Mortality Rate, Personality
Testing the Assumption of Cross-Level Measurement Invariance in Multilevel Models: Evidence from School and Classroom Environment Surveys. CRESST Report 829
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Schweig, Jonathan – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2013
Measures of classroom and school environments are a central component of policy efforts that assess school and teacher quality. These measures are often formed by aggregating individual survey responses to form group-level measures, and assume an invariant measurement model holds at both the individual and group level. This paper explores the…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Educational Environment, Classroom Environment, Surveys
Cross-Ethnicity Measurement Equivalence of Family Coping for Breast Cancer Survivors
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Lim, Jung-won; Townsend, Aloen – Research on Social Work Practice, 2012
Objective: The current study examines the equivalence of a measure of family coping, the Family Crisis Oriented Personal Evaluation scales (F-COPES), in Chinese American and Korean American breast cancer survivors (BCS). Methods: Factor structure and cross-ethnicity equivalence of the F-COPES were tested using structural equation modeling with 157…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Ethnicity, Coping, Cancer
An Investigation of Teacher Trust in the Principal
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Makiewicz, Monica Kathleen – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this work was to understand the concept of trust, its meaning, antecedents, and outcomes as they applied to teacher trust in principals. Since there are very few in-depth studies specifically on trust in a school principal, research on trust from an organizational perspective was consulted. This body of research has numerous and…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Student Characteristics, Trust (Psychology), Academic Achievement
Factor Analysis of a Modified Version of the California Brief Multicultural Competence Scale with Minority Pharmacy Students
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Echeverri, Margarita; Brookover, Cecile; Kennedy, Kathleen – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2011
While most of the more frequently used self-report measures of cultural competence in health professionals are targeted to practicing physicians and mental health providers from the majority-white population, no measures have been specifically developed for minority pharmacy students. With the objective to find a suitable tool to be used for…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Race, Racial Discrimination, Physicians