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van Rensburg, Clarisse; Mostert, Karina – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2023
Student well-being has gradually become a topic of interest in higher education, and the accurate, valid, and reliable measure of well-being constructs is crucial in the South African context. This study examined item bias and configural, metric and scalar invariance of the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) for South African first-year…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries, College Freshmen
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Luo, Ye; Watson, Joshua C.; Lenz, A. Stephen – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2021
This study provided preliminary evidence for a new Social Media Identity Distress Scale (SMIDS) using two subsamples of emerging adults (18-25 years of age) from Amazon Turk (each n = 373). The factor analysis revealed a single-factor scale explaining 72.9% of the variance in the items and supported a 20-item version of the original 66-item…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Social Media, Young Adults
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Ricardo Sanmartín; Marco A. García-Luna; Juan M. Cortell-Tormo; María Vicent-Juan; Nelson Otañez-Enriquez; José M. García-Fernández – SAGE Open, 2024
The Achievement Goal Theory has been commonly used in the literature and the relation between the goal orientation construct and aspects of athletes' personality and well-being is an important element to be considered in the sports field. The objectives of this study were: (i) to confirm the reliability, factorial invariance and existence of…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Factor Analysis, Measures (Individuals), Goal Orientation
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Smedema, Susan Miller; Talbot, René Marie – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2020
Objective: To evaluate the measurement structure of the "Job Satisfaction of Persons with Disabilities Scale" (JSPDS) in a sample of employed U.S. Americans with disabilities. Design: A quantitative descriptive design using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and correlational analysis. Participants: Two hundred and fifty-nine individuals…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Test Validity, Job Satisfaction, Disabilities
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Sofie Holmquist; Miguel Inzunza; Mehdi Ghazinour; Bert Jonsson – Education Inquiry, 2024
Need-satisfying experiences corresponding to students' psychological needs of autonomy, relatedness, and competence lead to increased academic engagement and well-being. A lack of education-specific basic needs instruments validated in Swedish may inhibit basic needs research in Swedish-speaking student populations. Thus, the present study aimed…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Competence, College Students, Student Needs
Gülsen, Cennet; Yalçinkaya, Münevver – Online Submission, 2020
The purpose of this study is to research the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of Designing my Future Scale developed by Di Maggio et al (2017) for the adolescents. Study had been carried out with 360 students in total who randomly selected from grades 9 and 10 from Namik Kemal High School, Bekir pasa High School and Erenköy High…
Descriptors: Likert Scales, Design, Goal Orientation, Adolescents