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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)
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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
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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
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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
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Wicker, Frank W.; And Others – Journal of Social Psychology, 1990
Studies test validity of the instruments used to measure intrinsic motivation. Compares behavioral and self-report measures among undergraduates of intrinsic task interest to momentary mood, long-term motivational orientation, and interest in competing activities. Finds the behavioral measure depends on how treatments affect interest in…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Psychological Studies, Student Motivation, Test Reliability
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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
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Tittler, Bennett I.; Hermann, Algund – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1980
The Group Test of Openness (GTO) was shown to have a moderate degree of stability. Predictive validity was demonstrated through a 14-week high school course in counseling skills in which scores on the GTO increased. GTO focused on behavior within a group and had an objective method of scoring. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Disclosure, Group Behavior
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Cooley, Frederick B.; Miller, Thomas W. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1979
In the debate concerning psychological testing and reliability/validity issues, one issue which has had implications for the examinee is card or task rejection. Card rejection on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Picture Arrangement subtest attracted considerable attention. Picture Arrangement is not commonly a disturbing task. Assessment…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavioral Science Research, Psychological Testing, Task Analysis
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Ragheb, Mounir G.; Beard, Jacob G. – Journal of Leisure Research, 1982
An instrument was devised to test three components of leisure attitudes: cognitive, affective, and behavioral. A final test was administered to 1,042 subjects. The results supported the use of the three components in testing for leisure attitudes. (FG)
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Attitude Measures, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research
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Manfredo, Michael J.; Shelby, Bo – Journal of Social Psychology, 1988
Examined the accuracy and validity of self-reports and their effect on tests of attitude-behavior relationships. Self-reports were reasonably accurate, but they produced results different from actual behavior in attitude-behavior tests. Concludes that self-reports and actual behavior should be measured, tested, and modeled separately. (Author/LS)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Predictor Variables
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Strayer, F. Francis; And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1995
Examined utility of the Attachment Q-set (AQS) instrument for cross-cultural comparisons of mother-child interactions. Found that interpretations concerning the structure of attachment and other social domains made on the basis of Q-sort descriptions of middle-class English-speaking U.S. children need not be substantially modified when…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
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Smith-Sebasto, N. J. – Journal of Environmental Education, 1992
A study reveals the need for extensive refinement of the Revised Perceived Environmental Control Measure purported in the past to be a reliable and valid instrument to measure the relationship between the psychological construct, "locus of control," and environmental action or environmentally responsible behavior. (MCO)
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Concurrent Validity, Construct Validity
Docking, Russell A. – 1979
The Profile of Real/Ideal Scholastic Motivation (PRISM) self-report instrument is included in the user's manual. PRISM is a set of 30 postulates which measures attitudes in an educational setting (i.e., educational self-theory). The instrument has a closed response format chosen on the grounds of reliability, validity, and reactivity. It is scaled…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Behavioral Science Research, Educational Attitudes, Educational Research
Frederiksen, Norman; Ward, William C. – 1975
A set of tests that might be reasonably used as provisional criterion measures in research on scientific thinking, particularly creative thinking, were developed and an assessment was made of the suitability of these tests as criterion variables from the standpoint of their psychometric properties. The Tests of Scientific Thinking are performance…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Correlation, Creative Thinking, Creativity Tests