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Cristian Zanon; Nan Zhao; Nursel Topkaya; Ertugrul Sahin; David L. Vogel; Melissa M. Ertl; Samineh Sanatkar; Hsin-Ya Liao; Mark Rubin; Makilim N. Baptista; Winnie W. S. Mak; Fatima Rashed Al-Darmaki; Georg Schomerus; Ying-Fen Wang; Dalia Nasvytiene – International Journal of Testing, 2025
Examinations of the internal structure of the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) have yielded inconsistent conclusions within and across cultural contexts. This study examined the dimensionality and reliability of the DASS-21 across three theoretically plausible factor structures (i.e., unidimensional, oblique three-factor, and…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Depression (Psychology), Psychometrics, Cultural Context
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Rigaud Joseph – Journal of Social Work Education, 2024
This study aimed to expand the psychometric properties of the Theory Evaluation Scale (TES), specifically its structure, construct validity, and internal consistency. A demographically diverse sample of 113 social work faculty (N = 113) utilized the TES to appraise a social work theory and their responses were used for exploratory factor analysis…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Rating Scales, Psychometrics, Reliability
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Zhong Jian Chee; Anke M. Scheeren; Marieke de Vries – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Despite several psychometric advantages over the 50-item Autism Spectrum Quotient, an instrument used to measure autistic traits, the abridged AQ-28 and its cross-cultural validity have not been examined as extensively. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the factor structure and measurement invariance of the AQ-28 in 818 Dutch (M[subscript…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Questionnaires, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis
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Super, Charles M.; Harkness, Sara – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
In this commentary we first examine psychometric issues in the ambitious enterprise of cross-cultural application of the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA). The present reports span a wide range of cultural places. Overall, the PBA presents good face validity and a strong replication of factor structure; future multi-group confirmatory factor…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Burnout, Cross Cultural Studies, Attitude Measures
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Li, Shengnan; Duan, Changming; Li, Fenglan – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2022
The current study pursued a scale development process to understand spirituality among Chinese college students. From definition to item development, Chinese college students' view and experiences were used as the bases. The validation process involved 1,207 college students from five different provinces, autonomous regions, and direct-controlled…
Descriptors: College Students, Religious Factors, Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences
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Fernández-Portero, Ignacio – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
As a consequence of the inclusion of students with special educational needs in mainstream classrooms, there is a need to measure the attitudes of language teachers toward inclusive education. This study used an exploratory sequential mixed methods research design to validate the construct of a newly developed scale. After exploratory qualitative…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Alhadabi, Amal; Aldhafri, Said; Alkharusi, Hussain; Al-Harthy, Ibrahim; AlBarashdi, Hafidha; Alrajhi, Marwa – European Journal of Educational Research, 2019
The current study aimed to adopt and assess the psychometric properties and measurement invariance of Grit-S among Omani and American students (N = 487) using Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Multi-Group Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). The scale's construct validity was estimated by investigating its associations with achievement goal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics
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Zhang, Ya; Hu, Jing; Evans, Chris; Jin, Li Wei; Wu, Meng Yang; Wang, Chun Yin; Zhang, Xiao Jin; Lu, Wei Hong; Chen, Guo Peng – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2020
To develop the Chinese version of Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation-Outcome Measure (CORE-OM) and examine its psychometric properties, we investigated a sample of 689 non-clinical and 309 clinical participants and found this measurement had good acceptability, internal reliability, test-retest reliability and convergent validity; it had…
Descriptors: Chinese, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Outcome Measures, Reliability
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Costigan, Robert; Gurbuz, Sait; Sigri, Unsal – Journal of Career Development, 2018
The purposes of this study are to (1) examine the factorial validity of Schein's career anchors orientation inventory (COI), comparing the original eight-factor model with an alternative nine-factor model, (2) examine the cross-cultural invariance of the COI and its factor structure across two countries, (3) investigate whether core…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Validity, Occupational Tests, Career Development
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Fauville, Géraldine; Strang, Craig; Cannady, Matthew A.; Chen, Ying-Fang – Environmental Education Research, 2019
The Ocean Literacy movement began in the U.S. in the early 2000s, and has recently become an international effort. The focus on marine environmental issues and marine education is increasing, and yet it has been difficult to show progress of the ocean literacy movement, in part, because no widely adopted measurement tool exists. The International…
Descriptors: Marine Education, Environmental Education, Comparative Analysis, Factor Structure
Wagle, Rhea; Dowdy, Erin; Yang, Chunyan; Palikara, Olympia; Castro, Susana; Nylund-Gibson, Karen; Furlong, Michael J. – School Psychology International, 2018
The Psychological Sense of School Membership (PSSM) scale has been used for more than 20 years to measure students' sense of school belonging, yet its psychometric properties have had limited examination with pre-adolescent children. This study investigated the utility and psychometrics of the PSSM in three primary school samples from the United…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Path Analysis, Student School Relationship, Student Attitudes
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Walsh, E.; Shou, Y.; Han, J.; Brinker, J. K. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2018
The Ruminative Thought Styles Questionnaire (RTS) conceptualizes rumination as repetitive, recurrent, intrusive, and uncontrollable thinking. This article outlines the development and validation of a Chinese language version of the RTS, the RTS-CH. Following independent translation, back translation, and final translation checking, the factor…
Descriptors: Chinese, Questionnaires, Measurement, Depression (Psychology)
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Moussa, Miriam Taouk; Lovibond, Peter; Laube, Roy; Megahead, Hamido A. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
Objective: To translate and evaluate the psychometric properties of an Arabic-language version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS). Method: The items were translated, back translated, refined, and tested in an Australian immigrant sample (N = 220). Results: Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the Arabic DASS discriminates between…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Measures (Individuals), Depression (Psychology), Anxiety
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Abubakar, Amina; van de Vijver, Fons; Alonso-Arbiol, Itziar; He, Jia; Adams, Byron; Aldhafri, Said; Aydinli-Karakulak, Arzu; Arasa, Josephine; Boer, Diana; Celenk, Ozgur; Dimitrova, Radosveta; Ferreira, Maria Cristina; Fischer, Ronald; Mbebeb, Fomba Emmanuel; Frías, María Teresa; Fresno, Andrés; Gillath, Omri; Harb, Charles; Handani, Penny; Hapunda, Given; Kamble, Shanmukh; Kosic, Marianna; Looh, Joseph Lah; Mazrui, Lubna; Mendia, Rafael Emilio; Murugami, Margaret; Mason-Li, Mei; Pandia, Weny Savitry; Perdomo, Cristina; Schachner, Maja; Sim, Samantha; Spencer, Rosario; Suryani, Angela; Tair, Ergyul – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2016
There is hardly any cross-cultural research on the measurement invariance of the Brief Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scales (BMSLSS). The current article evaluates the measurement invariance of the BMSLSS across cultural contexts. This cross-sectional study sampled 7,739 adolescents and emerging adults in 23 countries. A multi-group…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Attitude Measures, Adolescents, Young Adults
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Martin, Andrew J.; Martin, Tamica G.; Evans, Paul – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2018
This study explored motivation and engagement among 585 Jamaican middle and high school students. Motivation and engagement were assessed via students' responses to the Motivation and Engagement Scale. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) found satisfactory fit, and by most measures, multigroup CFA demonstrated comparable factor structure for males…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Middle School Students, High School Students, Foreign Countries
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