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Psychodiagnostic Properties of the Piotr Oles´ "Internal Dialogical Activity Scale"
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Astretsov, D. A.; Leontiev, D. A. – Russian Education & Society, 2016
The article discusses the concept of internal dialogue and how it is understood in various schools of psychological research, including both Russia and abroad. The authors briefly investigate how the concept was understood by Mikhail Bakhtin, Lev Vygotsky, G.M. Kuchinskii, and Hubert Hermans. The "Internal Dialogical Activity Scale"…
Descriptors: Psychological Studies, Foreign Countries, Construct Validity, Reflection
Psychometric Evaluation of the Fear of Positive Evaluation Scale in Patients with Social Anxiety Disorder
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Weeks, Justin W.; Heimberg, Richard G.; Rodebaugh, Thomas L.; Goldin, Philippe R.; Gross, James J. – Psychological Assessment, 2012
The Fear of Positive Evaluation Scale (FPES; J. W. Weeks, R. G. Heimberg, & T. L. Rodebaugh, 2008) was designed to assess fear of positive evaluation, a proposed cognitive component of social anxiety. Although previous findings on the psychometric properties of the FPES have been highly encouraging, only 1 previous study has examined the…
Descriptors: Profiles, Measures (Individuals), Anxiety Disorders, Anxiety
Psychometric Characteristics of the Duke Social Support Index in a Young Rural Chinese Population
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Jia, Cunxian; Zhang, Jie – Death Studies, 2012
The study is aimed to examine the psychometric characteristics of the Duke Social Support Scale (DSSI) in young rural Chinese individuals (379 suicides, 411 controls) aged 15-34 years. Social support was measured by 23-item DSSI, which included Social Interaction Scale, Subjective Social Support, and Instrumental Social Support. DSSI had high…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Interpersonal Relationship, Measures (Individuals), Interaction
The Impact of a Health Methods Class on Pre-Service Teachers' Self-Efficacy and Intent to Teach Health
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Fahlman, Mariane M.; Hall, Heather L.; Gutuskey, Lila – American Journal of Health Education, 2013
Background: Elementary schoolteachers are an important vehicle for teaching students health skills that will carry them through life and reduce their future risk of disease linked to health behaviors. Purpose: To determine whether university classroom instruction resulted in increased self-efficacy and intent to teach a skill-based health…
Descriptors: Health Education, Self Efficacy, Preservice Teachers, Quasiexperimental Design
Diagnosing the English Speaking Ability of College Students in China -- Validation of the Diagnostic College English Speaking Test
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Zhao, Zhongbao – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2013
This study investigates the validity of the Diagnostic College English Speaking Test (DCEST) in the context of EFL teaching and learning in China. The experiment was conducted in three stages over the course of eight weeks at a national key university in China. By means of test administration and questionnaire survey, the researcher gathered…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Construct Validity, Language Tests, Diagnostic Tests
The Aberrant Salience Inventory: A New Measure of Psychosis Proneness
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Cicero, David C.; Kerns, John G.; McCarthy, Denis M. – Psychological Assessment, 2010
Aberrant salience is the unusual or incorrect assignment of salience, significance, or importance to otherwise innocuous stimuli and has been hypothesized to be important for psychosis and psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. Despite the importance of this concept in psychosis research, no questionnaire measures are available to assess…
Descriptors: Schizophrenia, Validity, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis
Screening ADHD Problems in the Sports Behavior Checklist: Factor Structure, Convergent and Divergent Validity, and Group Differences
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Clendenin, Aaron A.; Businelle, Michael S.; Kelley, Mary Lou – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2005
The Sports Behavior Checklist (SBC) is subjected to a principal components analysis, and subscales are correlated with subscales of the Conners' Revised Parent Form and the Social Skills Rating System. Both of these analyses are conducted to determine the construct validity of the instrument. A subsample of lower socioeconomic status individuals…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Check Lists, Construct Validity, Athletics