Completed the Minnesota Infant Development Inventory (MIDI), a parental report instrument, for 168 infants of Hispanic migrant workers and performed factor analysis of the MIDI scores. Results suggest that the one-factor solution is best for infants from Hispanic migrant families until future research supports other practices. (SLD)

Developed an instrument to measure empowering leader behavior (study 1, n=1,309) and studied the relationship of the instrument to several theoretically relevant variables (study 2, n=84). Confirmatory factor analyses support a six-dimension model of empowering leader behavior. Psychological empowerment mediated the relationship between six…

Examines responses of Americans and Icelanders to the Expectations About Counseling Questionnaire-Brief Form (EAC-B) through confirmatory factor analyses. Investigates the validity of and expresses concern for the underlying factor structure of the EAC-B. Argues that a four-factor solution for the EAC-B is too complex and does not fit the student…

Examined the psychometric properties of the Beck Hopelessness Scale (A. Beck and others, 1974) among 544 university students. Results show satisfactory internal consistency of scores, but factor analysis suggested four factors that were largely uninterpretable. Results of a convergent validity study indicate that there are more appropriate…

Confirmatory factor analyses suggested that the Mathematics Anxiety Scale for Children measures an internally consistent, unidimensional construct. Construct validity (i.e., correlations with state anxiety, trait anxiety, and quantitative ability) was demonstrated. Discusses the importance of accurately assessing mathematics anxiety at the…

In a study of 852 nurses, work involvement (value of work in their lives) affected organizational and occupational commitment through its effect on job involvement. Job involvement indirectly affected intention to leave the organization or occupation. Work and job involvement and orgnanizational and occupational commitment were determined to be…

Assesses the psychometric properties of the Self-Description Questionnaire-II (SDQ-II) with a middle school sample comprising 291 students. Results reveal acceptable internal consistency and four-week stability coefficients for all domain scores and the total score of the instrument. Results of confirmatory factor analyses support the convergent…

The Student Evaluation of Educational Quality Questionnaire (SEEQ) is one of the most thoroughly developed and widely used student feedback questionnaires in the United States with a robust factor structure, excellent reliability, and reasonable validity. This study examined use of the SEEQ with 1,297 students in nine institutions in the United…

Two versions of the Smoking Consequences Questionnaire for adults were developed and tested with 407 smokers and nonsmokers. The version with probability items appeared to have greater construct validity than the version with subjective expected utility items. The scale reflects the refinement of smokers' outcome expectancies with experience. (SLD)

Inspection of the factor structure of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-III for four age groups from the standardization sample indicated a hierarchical arrangement of abilities when both two-factor and four-factor solutions were used. Both solutions indicated a strong general intelligence factor at all age levels studied. (SLD)

Explored the factor structure of the Quick Discrimination Index (QDI), a measure of discrimination attitudes toward women, with 428 white university students using hierarchical factor analysis. Results support a structure with four first-order factors and one second-order factor. Study 2 tested the original factor structure and the structure from…

Reports on the validation of a questionnaire designed to measure general mathematics confidence, general confidence with using technology, and attitudes towards the use of technology for mathematics learning. Reports that scales formed on the basis of factor analysis demonstrated high internal consistency reliability and divergent validity.…

Psychologists (N=305) completed a questionnaire concerning criteria for sexual consent capacity by individuals with mental retardation. Factor analysis identified five factors of which basic sexual knowledge, knowledge of the consequences of sexual behavior, and abilities related to self-protection were most critical for sexual consent capacity.…

Objective: The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire is a 25-item instrument developed to assess emotional and behavioral problems. The current study attempted to replicate previous European structural analyses and to describe the latent dimensions that underlie responses to the parent-reported version of the Strengths and Difficulties…

Aim: This study aimed to produce a revised two-factor version of the Learning Process Questionnaire (R-LPQ-2F) with deep and surface approach scales, measured by a reasonably small number of items, suitable for use by teachers in secondary schools to evaluate the learning approaches of their students. Method: A set of 41 items was derived, with…