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Vaughn, Allison A.; Roesch, Scott C.; Aldridge, Arianna A. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2009
Stress-related growth is defined as the perception or experience of deriving benefits from encountering stressful circumstances and, thus, has been identified as a protective factor against stress. The current study revised and subsequently validated scores on an existing measure of stress-related growth in a sample of racial/ethnic minority…
Descriptors: Validity, Adolescents, Coping, Individual Differences
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Zimprich, Daniel; Perren, Sonja; Hornung, Rainer – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2005
Classical factor analysis assumes independent and identically distributed observations. Educational data, however, are often hierarchically structured, with, for example, students being nested within classes. In this study, data on self-esteem gathered in a sample of 1,107 students within 72 school classes in Switzerland were analyzed using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Environment, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
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Wiggins, Nancy – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1971
Descriptors: Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Factor Structure, Individual Characteristics
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Leibovitz, Morris P.; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1972
Study examined the hypothesis that individual differences are unrelated to types of imaging, and the interrelation of imagery modalities as measured by different assessment devices. (Authors/MB)
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Imagery, Individual Differences, Measurement Instruments
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Wherry Waters, Carrie; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1976
Results indicate that pre-flight students and college males of the same age range differ on several aspects of novelty and sensation seeking and that in both samples studied, the variables are relatively independent of measured ability and academic course performance. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: Ability, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Factor Analysis
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Piotrowski, Chris – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1983
The present study compared the factor structures obtained when the same data were factor analyzed: (1) for the total sample (463 fifth grade students) and by sex for collapsed concepts, and (2) by individual concept for the total sample by sex, and for internal and external locus of control groups. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Individual Differences, Intermediate Grades