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Goulet, Julie; Archambault, Isabelle; Morizot, Julien; Olivier, Elizabeth; Tardif-Grenier, Kristel – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2023
Studies highlighting the importance of parental involvement in schooling have multiplied over the past years. However, well-validated tools assessing the different dimensions of parental involvement are lacking, especially when addressing young students' perception of their parents' involvement. This study offers a preliminary validation of the…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Parent Participation, Questionnaires, Student Attitudes
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Miceli, Silvana; de Palo, Valeria; Monacis, Lucia; Cardaci, Maurizio; Sinatra, Maria – Creativity Research Journal, 2018
The Cognitive Style Indicator (CoSI) includes 3 cognitive dimensions: creating (flexible, open-ended and inventive), knowing (emphasizing facts, details, objectivity, and rationality), and planning (guided by preferences for certainty and well-structured information). The first aim of this research was to validate the 3-factor structure of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Decision Making, Preferences, Measures (Individuals)
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Vlachopoulos, Symeon P. – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
This study examined the extent of measurement invariance of the Basic Psychological Needs in Exercise Scale responses (BPNES; Vlachopoulos & Michailidou, 2006) across male (n = 716) and female (n = 1,147) exercise participants. BPNES responses from exercise participants attending private fitness centers (n = 1,012) and community exercise programs…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals), Measurement
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Putwain, David W. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Background: Despite a large body of international literature concerning the antecedents, correlates of and treatments for test anxiety, there has been little research until recently using samples of students drawn from the UK. There is a need to establish some basic normative data for test anxiety scores in this population of students, in order to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), North Americans, Multiple Regression Analysis
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Andreou, Eleni; Vlachos, Filippos; Andreou, Georgia – Educational Research, 2006
Background: There is considerable interest in differences in students' approaches to learning, particularly in the difference between "deep" approaches (characterized by contextualization, critical review and recognition of the value of the content) and "surface" approaches (characterized by rote learning for functional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Learning Strategies, Factor Structure
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Cheng, Sheung-Tak; Chan, Alfred C. M.; Phillips, David R. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2004
What might add quality to life during the last period of the life cycle? In study I, five focus groups of elderly participants representing different ages and socioeconomic backgrounds provided descriptions of quality of life (QOL) from their own perspectives. These descriptions formed the basis of a questionnaire that was administered to a…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Quality of Life, Factor Structure, Questionnaires