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Measuring Search for Meaning: A Factor-Analytic Evaluation of the Seeking of Noetic Goals Test (SONG)

Schulenberg, Stefan; Baczwaski, Brandy; Buchanan, Erin - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 15 (2014) 3, pp. 693-715

This study’s primary purpose was to examine the factor structure of the 20-item Seeking of Noetic Goals (SONG) test via exploratory and confirmatory factor-analytic procedures. An additional objective was to report on the measure’s incremental validity in comparison to the Search scale of...

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Loneliness Literacy Scale: Development and Evaluation of an Early Indicator for Loneliness Prevention

Vlaming, Rianne Honigh-de; Haveman-Nies, Annemien; … - In: Social Indicators Research 116 (2014) 3, pp. 989-1001

To develop and evaluate the Loneliness Literacy Scale for the assessment of short-term outcomes of a loneliness prevention programme among Dutch elderly persons. Scale development was based on evidence from literature and experiences from local stakeholders and representatives of the target...

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Psychometric assessment of workaholism measures

Andreassen, Cecilie Schou; Hetland, Jørn; Pallesen, Ståle - In: Journal of managerial psychology 29 (2014) 1, pp. 7-24

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Acuity and case management: a healthy dose of outcomes, part III

Huber, Diane L.; Craig, K. - 2007

PURPOSE OF STUDY: This is the third of a 3-part series presenting 2 effective applications--acuity and dosage--that describe how the business case for case management (CM) can be made. In Part I, dosage and acuity concepts were explained as client need-severity, CM intervention-intensity, and CM...

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Posterior predictive model checking for multidimensionality in item response theory and Bayesian networks

Levy, Roy - 2006

If data exhibit a dimensional structure more complex than what is assumed, key conditional independence assumptions of the hypothesized model do not hold. The current work pursues posterior predictive model checking, a flexible family of Bayesian model checking procedures, as a tool for...

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Psychometric assessment of workaholism measures

Schou Andreassen, Cecilie; Hetland, Jørn; Pallesen, Ståle - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 29 (2013) 1, pp. 7-24

Purpose – Although the concept of workaholism has existed in the academic literature for decades, exploration of its measurements seems to lag behind. The purpose of this study is to present an investigation of the three most commonly used workaholism measures; the Workaholism Battery...

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The Analysis of Likert Scales Using State Multipoles

Camparo, James; Camparo, Lorinda B. - In: Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 38 (2013) 1, pp. 81-101

Though ubiquitous, Likert scalingâ€™s traditional mode of analysis is often unable to uncover all of the valid information in a data set. Here, the authors discuss a solution to this problem based on methodology developed by quantum physicists: the state multipole method. The authors...

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Measuring the Reliability of Diagnostic Classification Model Examinee Estimates

Templin, Jonathan; Bradshaw, Laine - In: Journal of Classification 30 (2013) 2, pp. 251-275

Over the past decade, diagnostic classification models (DCMs) have become an active area of psychometric research. Despite their use, the reliability of examinee estimates in DCM applications has seldom been reported. In this paper, a reliability measure for the categorical latent variables of...

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Interacting with a questionnaire: respondents’ constructions of questionnaire completion

Galasiński, Dariusz; Kozłowska, Olga - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 47 (2013) 6, pp. 3509-3520

This article explores informants’ constructions of the situation of completing a questionnaire. The data comes from a study qualitatively replicating a quantitative method in which informants were asked to think aloud when completing a questionnaire designed to identify and measure feelings...

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Seeking a Balance Between the Statistical and Scientific Elements in Psychometrics

Wilson, Mark - In: Psychometrika 78 (2013) 2, pp. 211-236

that work. The intent is to seek to understand where psychometrics, as a discipline, has been and where it might be headed …, in part at least, by considering one particular journey (my own). In contemplating this, I also look to psychometrics … journals to see how psychometrics is represented there (or perhaps, not represented, as the case may be). I present a series of …

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