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Bernard, Larry C.; Hutchison, Steven; Lavin, Alexander; Pennington, Pamela – Assessment, 1996
Six personality measures, measures of stress, self-reported health status and coping, and a measure of social desirability were administered to samples of college students and adults (n=589) in a series of four studies. Correlations among these measures and evidence for a higher order factor called Health Proneness factor are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, College Students, Coping
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Bessant, Kenneth C. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1997
This study reports on the development and psychometric properties of a new 87-item Mathematics Information Processing Scale that explores learning strategies, metacognitive problem-solving skills, and attentional deployment. Results with 340 college students support the use of the instrument, for which factor analysis identified five theoretically…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Factor Analysis
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Zeller, Meg; Vannatta, Kathryn; Schafer, John; Noll, Robert B. – Developmental Psychology, 2003
Used the Revised Class Play measure to examine measurement of peer perceptions of behavioral reputation in elementary, middle, and high school environments. Found that data did not fit the original 3-factor structure; cross-loading of items and different patterns of association between subscales across age groups contributed to poor fit.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes
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Ree, Malcolm James; Carretta, Thomas R. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1995
Comparisons of aptitude factor structures were made in nationally representative samples of young black, white, and Hispanic American men and women who took the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) (n=9,173). Tests reflecting content common in high school curricula showed few sex or ethnic differences. Other differences are…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum
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Gustafsson, Jan-Eric; Undheim, Johan Olav – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1992
The stability of some dimensions of ability between the ages of 12 and 15 years was investigated for 225 boys and 242 girls in Sweden. Testing in grades 6, 8, and 9 indicated high stability for the general intelligence factor and for the residual of the General Visual factor. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability, Adolescents, Age Differences, Comparative Testing
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Smith, Glenn E.; And Others – Psychological Assessment, 1992
Using the Mayo Older Americans Normative Studies (MOANS) group (526 55-to 97-year-old adults), factor models were examined for the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R); the Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS); and a core battery of the WAIS-R, the WMS, and the Rey Auditory-Verbal Learning Test. (SLD)
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Diagnostic Tests, Factor Structure, Intelligence
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Webster, Jane; And Others – Computers in Human Behavior, 1993
Defines playfulness in human-computer interactions in terms of flow theory and explores the dimensionality of the flow concept. Two studies are reported that investigated the factor structure and correlates of flow in human-computer interactions: one examined MBA students using Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet software, and one examined employees using…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Correlation, Courseware, Electronic Mail
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Beatty, Sharon E.; And Others – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1994
Choice of leisure activity expressed by students and one parent each from four countries supports a three-dimensional factor structure of leisure dimensions, identified as aesthetic-intellectual, sports, and social-entertainment. Subjects were 642 U.S., 174 French, 243 Danish, and 139 New Zealand college students and their parents. (SLD)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Athletics, College Students, Cross Cultural Studies
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Walker, Hill M.; And Others – School Psychology Review, 1991
Psychometric characteristics and factorial replicability of the factor structure of the adolescent version (grades 7-12) of the Walker-McConnell Scale of Social Competence and School Adjustment were studied in an initial wave (n=266) of the national normative sample. The version studied has substantial utility in assessing adolescent social…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
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Chan, Jason C. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1991
A study involving 102 high school students (49 males and 53 females) from Taiwan revealed that the order of response scale labels had a primacy effect on subjects' choices of the alternatives in Likert-type attitude scales. Practical implications of the response-order effects for measurement are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Correlation, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Foreign Countries
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Marsh, Herbert W.; Byrne, Barbara M. – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1993
Extensions of the confirmatory factor analysis approach to multitrait-multimethod data are demonstrated, and self-other agreement on multiple dimensions of self-concept are evaluated in 2 studies investigating the ability of significant others to infer multiple dimensions of self-concept for 151 Australian and 941 Canadian college students. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Correlation, Cross Cultural Studies, Factor Structure
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Berberoglu, Giray; Calikoglu, Gaye – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1993
The Computer Attitude Scale was adapted for use with Turkish university students. Translation to Turkish and back to English established the scale. Results with 282 university students indicates the utility of the scale with Turkish students, although the construct functions differently between the cultures. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Differences, Culture Fair Tests, Factor Analysis
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Rayfield, Arista; Eyberg, Sheila M.; Foote, Rebecca – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1998
A revision of the Sutter-Eyberg Student Behavior Inventory (S. Eyberg and D. Pincus, in press), a teacher rating scale of conduct behavior problems at school, was completed by 38 teachers for 726 students in grades 5 through 12. Item analyses led to retention of 10 of the 17 experimental test items and deletion of 8 original items. (SLD)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
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Nash, John B.; Moroz, Pauline A. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1997
This study, utilizing data from 208 educators, obtained estimates of the reliability of the four subscale version of the 40-item Computer Attitude Scale (CAS); provided detailed information regarding the factor patterns of the CAS subscales; and provided evidence about the differential validity of the CAS among four groups with differing intensity…
Descriptors: Computer Anxiety, Computer Attitudes, Computer Literacy, Evaluation Methods
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Le, Huy; Casillas, Alex; Robbins, Steven B.; Langley, Ronelle – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2005
The authors used a rational-empirical approach to construct the Student Readiness Inventory, measuring psychosocial and academic-related skill factors found to predict two important college outcomes, academic performance and retention, in a recent meta-analysis. The initial item pool was administered to 5,970 first-year college students and high…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Factor Structure, College Students, Student Motivation
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