Academic entitlement (AE) characterizes students who believe they deserve positive academic outcomes independent of performance. Using the Academic Entitlement Questionnaire, we evaluated the longitudinal stability of the measurement and magnitude of AE. Results indicated partial measurement invariance, slight average increase in AE, and…

The Mathematical Resilience Scale measures students' attitudes toward studying mathematics, using three correlated factors: Value, Struggle, and Growth. The Mathematical Resilience Scale was developed and validated using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses across three samples. Results provide a new approach to gauge the likelihood of…

This study was to apply the mixed Rasch model to investigate person heterogeneity of Beck Depression Inventory-II-Chinese version (BDI-II-C) and its effects on dimensionality and construct validity. Person heterogeneity was reflected by two latent classes that differ qualitatively. Additionally, person heterogeneity adversely affected the…

Administered Acculturation Rating Scale for Mexican Americans (ARSMA) to 349 Mexican-American college students. Findings suggest that acculturation, as measured by ARSMA, involves elements of oral language usage, historical familial identification, contacts with Mexico and ease with reading and writing Spanish, and generalized perceptions of…

Assessed the construct validity of the Strong Interest Inventory (SVIB-SCII) Adventure Scale for women college students (N=136). Found significant correlations with Jackson Personality Research Form scales that measure willingness to take physical and social risks and an independence-dependence dimension. (Author)

Factor adequacy and other results based on data from college students (N=359) provided positive evidence regarding the construct validity of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Second order factor analysis supported the appropriateness of the MBTI item weighting procedures. (Author/ABB)

College students (n=150) completed Anger Discomfort Scale (ADS), 15-item self-report inventory designed to assess people's degree of discomfort with their own anger. Results revealed that ADS had satisfactory levels of internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Anger discomfort was positively related to anger suppression and was also…

Administered individual intelligence tests to 52 students in remedial programs in a university setting. The individual profiles obtained contained significantly greater variability than would be expected. Concludes that students with high intersubtest variability are likely to need more individually tailored programs than do intellectual peers who…

Evaluated a short form of the Roommate Rapport Scale that would maintain the scale's reliability and eliminate potentially objectionable items using students (N=320) who resided in dormitories. Results showed the short form to be reliable and unidimensional. (ABL)

Surveyed 92 college students to obtain validity estimates for the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale. Results of concurrent and discriminant validity studies only partially supported the construct validity of the scale, and the use of individual subscales proved uncertain. (Author/BH)

Developed an abbreviated version of the Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale (MARS). Subjects were college students (n=517). The result was an internally consistent and reliable 25-item scale. (Author/ABL)

Investigated the relationships among Hackett's suggested variables of mathematics and career self-efficacy, perceived external support, mathematics background, and mathematics performance among male and female students selecting mathematics-based college majors. Self-efficacy beliefs, mathematics ability, mathematics anxiety, and level of support…

This study examined evidence of concurrent validity for the use of scores from the Campbell Interest and Skill Survey (CISS) with college student-athletes. Agreement between declared college major and interest scores on the CISS was calculated for male student-athletes and nonathletes. Difference between samples was nonsignificant. (Contains 22…

Explores the validity of the Subjective Unit of Discomfort (SUD), which monitors changes in anxiety levels during the application of systematic desensitization to phobias, by correlating it with established instruments of the state of anxiety. Given the limitation of the absence of an anxiety-provoking situation, this study provides empirical data…

Examines the applicability of Holland's (1985) hexagonal model of interests to Chicano/Latino samples using multidimensional scaling and a test of the hypothesized order relations. Discusses implications of results and subjects for further research. (Author/MKA)