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Direct linkTrub, Leora; Barbot, Baptiste – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2020
The "Messaging Motivations Questionnaire" ("MMQ") is a concise 8-item measure, which consists of two subscales capturing people's typical motivations to text. The MMQ was developed through focus groups and item analysis based on a pilot study, followed by a larger validation study involving a sample of 982 young adults. Factor…
Descriptors: Likert Scales, Questionnaires, Computer Mediated Communication, Self Expression
Sayler, Micheal F.; Boazman, Janette; Natesan, Prathiba; Periathiruvadi, Sita – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2015
This study examined the psychometric properties of the Personal Well-being Index for Adults (PWI-A), a measure of subjective well-being. The study used data from 533 high-ability American college students: honors students and participants in an early college entrance program. In earlier studies using the PWI-A, the instrument appeared to show…
Descriptors: Well Being, Academically Gifted, College Students, Psychometrics
Iossi, Laura Hillerbrand – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Math anxiety levels and performance outcomes were compared for bilingual and monolingual community college Intermediate Algebra students attending a culturally diverse urban commuter college. Participants (N = 618, 250 men, 368 women; 361 monolingual, 257 bilingual) completed the Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS) and a demographics instrument.…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Community Colleges, Commuter Colleges, Predictor Variables
Bussing, Regina; Fernandez, Melanie; Harwood, Michelle; Hou, Wei; Garvan, Cynthia Wilson; Eyberg, Sheila M.; Swanson, James M. – Assessment, 2008
To examine Swanson, Nolan, and Pelham-IV (SNAP-IV) psychometric properties, parent (N = 1,613) and teacher (N = 1,205) data were collected from a random elementary school student sample in a longitudinal attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) detection study. SNAP-IV reliability was acceptable. Factor structure indicated two ADHD factors…
Descriptors: African American Students, White Students, Poverty, Factor Structure
Wren, Frances J.; Berg, Eric A.; Heiden, Lynda A.; Kinnamon, Carolyn J.; Ohlson, Lirio A.; Bridge, Jeffrey A.; Birmaher, Boris; Bernal, M. Pilar – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2007
Objective: To explore in a multiethnic primary care population the impact of child gender and of race/ethnicity on parent and child reports of school-age anxiety and on the factor structure of the Screen for Childhood Anxiety and Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED). Method: A consecutive sample of 515 children (8 to less than 13 years) and their…
Descriptors: Parents, Ethnicity, Factor Analysis, Emotional Disturbances
Taylor, Ronald L.; And Others – Diagnostique, 1985
Construct validity of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised using 189 Black, 184 Hispanic, and 187 White 6- to 11-year-olds was investigated. A two-factor solution yielded similar loadings corresponding to verbal comprehension and perceptual organization for all three groups. Three-factor solutions yielded similar loadings for…
Descriptors: Blacks, Children, Construct Validity, Elementary Education
Rock, D. A.; And Others – 1982
The study evaluated the invariance of the construct validity and thus the interpretation of Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) Aptitude Test scores. A systematic procedure for investigation of test bias from a construct validity frame of reference was developed and applied. Invariant construct validity was defined as similar patterns of loadings…
Descriptors: Black Students, College Entrance Examinations, Factor Structure, Graduate Study
Download full textStricker, Lawrence J.; Rock, Donald A.; Pollack, Judith M.; Wenglinsky, Harold H. – College Entrance Examination Board, 2002
This study explored individual differences in educational disadvantage-- deficits in formal and informal education in the school, home, and elsewhere--in the SAT test-taking population. Factor analysis identified six educational disadvantage factors--four concerning the students' schools and two the students' nativity and parenting--and one family…
Descriptors: Research Reports, College Entrance Examinations, Individual Differences, Disadvantaged
