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Development of Social Media Addiction Test (SMAT17)
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Esgi, Necmi – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
The aim of this study was to develop a test for assessing individuals' social media addiction; and conducting a reliability and validity study of this scale. Sample for this study was composed of 285 college students between the ages of 18 and 25. Reliability coefficients Cronbach's alpha value was 0.94 and Spearman Brown value was 0.91 for our…
Descriptors: Social Media, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Addictive Behavior
Assessing Preschool Children's Competitive Behaviour: An Observational System
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Tsiakara, Angeliki; Digelidis, Nikolaos M. – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
The aim of this study was to develop a direct observational system in order to assess competitive behaviours in preschool children. Participants were 176 children (90 boys, 86 girls; M[subscript age]?=?5.2 years) from 10 kindergarten classes of one town of Central Greece. A new observational system (Observational System Assessing Competition in…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Child Behavior, Competition, Kindergarten
2011 Outstanding AFCPE[R] Conference Paper: Development and Validation of a Financial Self-Efficacy Scale
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Lown, Jean M. – Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, 2011
This study developed a 6-item Financial Self-Efficacy Scale for use by researchers, educators, counselors, and advisors. Bandura's concept of self-efficacy and Prochaska's Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change provided the theoretical framework. Scale items were adapted from Schwarzer and Jerusalem's (1995) General Self-Efficacy Scale.…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Money Management, Measures (Individuals), Factor Analysis
Development of a Five-Dimensional Measure of Adult Sleep Quality
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Fortunato, Vincent J.; LeBourgeois, Monique K.; Harsh, John – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2008
This article describes the development of a measure of adult sleep quality: the Adult Sleep-Wake Scale (ADSWS). The ADSWS is a self-report pencil-and-paper measure of sleep quality consisting of five behavioral dimensions (Going to Bed, Falling Asleep, Maintaining Sleep, Reinitiating Sleep, and Returning to Wakefulness). Data were collected from…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Test Validity, Sleep, Personality Traits
Toward Definition and Measurement of Pupil Control Behavior.
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Helsel, A. Ray; Willower, Donald J. – 1973
An attempt is made to define and measure pupil control "behavior." In order to measure pupil control behavior, an instrument called the Pupil Control Behavior (PCB) Form was developed and tested. The 31 custodial and 34 humanistic items were randomized, and the initial version of the PCB Form was administered in 20 schools in Illinois…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Behavioral Science Research, Classroom Techniques, Discipline
Development and Psychometric Analyses of Major Scales Utilized in A Study of Schooling. A Study of Schooling in the United States. Technical Report Series, No. 4.
Sirotnik, Kenneth A. – 1979
This report contains accounts of studies, about scales to be used in the "A Study of Schooling" research project, undertaken to derive indices for constructs presumed to be measureable by composites of items. The report is introduced by a discussion on the rationale for selecting the research methodology used and an explanation of the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping, Correlation