Resilience is widely believed to represent a positive and highly desirable attribute in children and adolescents. Generally defined as the dynamic process of coping adaptively with traumatic life events or chronic stress, resilience researchers emphasize different aspects of the construct, leading to variance in measurement tools. No known studies…

Questionnaires are widely used in autism assessment. However, their psychometric properties are generally not evaluated in clinical practice, and the comparability and applicability of such research is limited because questionnaires are often not simultaneously evaluated. This certainly pertains to predictive values which are highly population and…

The quality of interprofessional collaboration is a key determinant of the success and effectiveness of integrative care for children with multiple and complex needs. This study reports on the development and first psychometric evaluation of a questionnaire that assesses professionals' perceptions of interprofessional collaboration for child…

During the COVID-19 pandemic, education systems policymakers realized the importance of being able to communicate using technology and to fulfill their academic obligations. As a consequence, a different approach to education followed: blended learning. A literature review revealed a lack of psychometric tools related to blended teaching readiness…

Friendship quality is closely associated with mental health of children and adolescents, making its assessment crucially important for monitoring healthy development. While the Network Relationship Inventory-Social Provisions Version (NRI-SPV) is a well-established instrument to assess quality of interpersonal relationships, its psychometric…

Purpose: The present study examined the psychometric properties of the EGame-flow scale in a Mexican sample, presenting evidence of construct validity (exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis), reliability (Cronbach's alpha and McDonald's omega) and discriminant validity (mean variance extracted). Design/methodology/approach:…

Introduction: Gender stereotypes in schools influence how students perceive their academic and vocational abilities. Teachers play a crucial role in the transfer and transformation of these stereotypes. Teacher training must address these biases to promote equitable education. This research aims to design and validate a scale to identify how…

Objective: This study sought to examine the factor structure, internal consistency, and measurement invariance of the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) and the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) among older sexual minority women with disabilities. Method: Participants (n = 208) consisted of sexual minority women aged 55 and…

Self-report measures are essential sources of information about learners' studying perceptions. These perceptions also guide self-regulated learning (SRL) decisions and strategies in future studying. However, the development of self-report methods has not kept pace with other multi-modal methodological advancements, particularly in the field of…

Academic procrastination, the tendency to delay academic tasks without reasonable justification, has significant implications for students' academic performance and overall well-being. To measure this construct, numerous scales have been developed, among which the Academic Procrastination Scale (APS) has shown promise in assessing academic…

Climate change worry (CCW) is a specific worry about climate change, involving thoughts about changes that might occur in the climate system and their possible effects. Nowadays, it is growing especially among adolescents. As there is a lack of measurement tools with adequate psychometric properties to assess CCW in this age group, we investigated…

In China there is an increasing need for suitable measures to evaluate clinical outcomes in adolescents' psychological counselling processes. To satisfy this purpose, this study evaluated the Young Person's Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (YP-CORE)'s psychometric properties in a Chinese context with two groups: psychiatric outpatients…

There is a growing need to equip teachers with social emotional behavioral knowledge in schools through professional development. Yet, for developers of such professional development offerings, identifying a single adequate tool that can flexibly assess learning across topics and offerings presents a unique measurement challenge. In this study, we…

Parental educational anxiety, which refers to the anxiety and stress they experience about their children's academic performance, learning processes, and educational environments, has become an important research topic in recent years. In this context, developing or adapting scales for understanding parents' concerns to different cultures is of…

Current literature on students' emotional well-being often relies on global measures, making it difficult to identify affective states specifically experienced within the school context. This study, based on a population (N = 297993) of 10th grade students, analyzed differences in emotions at school across academic achievement, socioeconomic…