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A psychometric evaluation of the Short Grit Scale: A closer look at its factor structure and scale functioning.
Grit, the passion and perseverance for long-term goals, has received attention from personality psychologists because it predicts success and academic achievement. Grit has also been criticized as simply another measure of self-control or conscientiousness. A precise psychometric representation of grit is needed to understand how the construct is unique and how it overlaps with other constructs. Previous research suggests that the Short Grit Scale (Grit-S) has several psychometric limitations, such as uncertain factor structure within and across populations, uncertainty about reporting total or subscale scores, and differe...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - July 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The coping scales from the German Stress and Coping Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents: Psychometric and factorial evidence for five language versions.
The coping scales from the Stress and Coping Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (SSKJ 3–8; Lohaus, Eschenbeck, Kohlmann, & Klein-Heßling, 2018) are subscales of a theoretically based and empirically validated self-report instrument for assessing, originally in the German language, the five strategies of seeking social support, problem solving, avoidant coping, palliative emotion regulation, and anger-related emotion regulation. The present study examined factorial structure, measurement invariance, and internal consistency across five different language versions: English, French, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian....
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - July 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Measurement invariance across age groups and over 20 years’ time of the Negative and Positive Affect Scale (NAPAS).
The factor structure and measurement invariance across gender of Mroczek’s and Kolarz’s scales of positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) have been examined in past studies; however, little is known about the measurement invariance across age groups and over time, which are important psychometric properties for developmental research. The current study sought to fill this gap using the data from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS). Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to examine increasing levels of measurement invariance across gender and age groups. Longitu...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - July 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Assessing other-directed, lighthearted, intellectual, and whimsical playfulness in adults: Development and initial validation of the OLIW-S using self- and peer-ratings.
Adult playfulness is an individual differences variable that allows people to (re-)frame everyday situations in a way to make them entertaining, stimulating, and/or interesting. Recently, a structural model with four facets (i.e., Other-directed, Lighthearted, Intellectual, and Whimsical; OLIW) and a subjective measure with 28 items have been developed. The main aim of this study is to test a 12-item short form (OLIW-S). In Study 1, we retrieved the 4-factorial OLIW structure in three independently collected samples (N = 1,168; 696 self-ratings and 166 dyads providing reciprocal self- and peer-ratings). We found satisfacto...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - July 8, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The impact of technology on psychological testing in practice and policy: What will the future bring.
Technological advances that contribute to (and often also compete against) psychological testing have given rise to both enthusiasm and concern. This editorial will add some personal thoughts to this debate with the declared intention to start an exchange around the discussed topics. Traditionally, psychological tests are defined as procedures or methods that determine the presence or examine the level of a factor or phenomenon that are comprised of a set of standardized items (“stimuli”, e.g., questions, or tasks) and that are scored in a standardized manner focusing on individual differences (e.g., in abilities, skil...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - June 6, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

And yet another New Year’s resolution: Pushing EJPA’s advance articles.
The core New Year’s resolution for EJPA is to reduce the number of published advance articles, often called “online first articles”, that we have accumulated over the years, and to assign them more quickly to an issue. Not a new idea, by the way. In fact, the increase in the number of issues per year from 4 to 6 in 2017 was targeted at reducing the number of articles that had not been assigned to an issue yet, but due to the high number of submissions and their high quality, this attempt utterly failed. Thus, as we move into 2019 we are still faced with a substantial number of advance articles. This means that after ...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - March 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Would you prefer your coefficients with a little bias, or rather with a lot of variance?
In this editorial we have reminded ourselves and hopefully also our readers how psychological assessment often has a very practical aim: predicting human behavior in the real world. We aimed to illustrate how bias in regression estimates – which may theoretically sound undesirable – may be practically beneficial. When the aim is to predict human behavior, we may prefer an algorithm that aims to optimize predictive accuracy and variable selection instead of traditional unbiased methods, which aim to recover the “true” values of the parameters of a stochastic model that generated the data. A simulation experiment par...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - December 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

“Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) in a Turkish adolescent sample”: Correction to Saritas, Gencöz, & Özen, 2015.
Reports an error in "Confirmatory factor analyses of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) in a Turkish adolescent sample" by Dilek Sarıtaş-Atalar, Tülin Gençöz and Ayça Özen (European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 2015, Vol 31[1], 12-19). In the article, there is an error on page 12. The affiliation of Dilek Saritas-Atalar should read as follows: Department of Psychology, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey. We regret any inconvenience or confusion this error may have caused. Please see the erratum for full description. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2014-09898...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - October 18, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

“Sense of belonging to school in 15-year old students – The role of parental education and students’ attitudes toward school”: Correction to Marksteiner & Kuger, 2016.
Reports an error in "Sense of belonging to school in 15-year-old students: The role of parental education and students’ attitudes toward school" by Tamara Marksteiner and Susanne Kruger (European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 2016, Vol 32[1], 68-74). In the article, there is an error on p. 68. The second author’s name should read as follows: Susanne Kuger (instead of Kruger). The editors regret any inconvenience or confusion this error may have caused. Please see erratum for full description. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2016-20899-007.) Worldwide, students’ health and sub...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - October 18, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Dimensional assessment of personality disorders: Diagnosing Tony Soprano, Norman Bates, Hercule Poirot, and Carol Beer through the DSM-5 AMPD.
EJPA publishes assessment-related manuscripts from all areas of psychology and occasionally uses editorials to take up important questions from one of these fields. Along this line of thinking, the current editorial discusses contemporary approaches towards assessing personality disorders, both categorical and dimensional with a specific focus on the recent developments in the 5th version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5). The aim of this editorial is to shape awareness of how even within the DSM, different approaches are combined in a more or less ideal way and to encourage further (assessment-related) rese...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - October 18, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

"Approach and avoidance temperament: An examination of its construct and predictive validity at work”: Correction to Bipp, Kleingeld, & Van Dam, 2015.
Reports an error in "Approach and avoidance temperament: An examination of its construct and predictive validity at work" by Tanja Bipp, Ad Kleingeld and Karen van Dam (European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 2017, Vol 33[3], 196-206). The article entitled “Approach and avoidance temperament: An examination of its construct and predictive validity at work” by Bipp, T., Kleingeld, A., and Van Dam, K. (European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 2015, advance online publication. doi: 10.1027/1015-5759/a000285) contained an error on p. 1. The authors’ affiliations should read as follows: Tanja Bipp,1,2 Ad Kleing...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - September 13, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

“Measurement of psychological entitlement in 28 countries”: Correction to Zemotjel-Piotrowska et al., 2015.
This article presents the cross-cultural validation of the Entitlement Attitudes Questionnaire, a tool designed to measure three facets of psychological entitlement: active, passive, and revenge entitlement. Active entitlement was defined as the tendency to protect individual rights based on self-worthiness. Passive entitlement was defined as the belief in obligations to and expectations toward other people and institutions for the fulfillment of the individual’s needs. Revenge entitlement was defined as the tendency to protect one’s individual rights when violated by others and the tendency to reciprocate insults. The...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - September 13, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

EJPA introduces registered reports as new submission format.
Registered Reports (RR) are a relatively new method of manuscript submission that helps to eliminate questionable research practices such as p-hacking and HARKing and aligns scientific values and practices by completing the peer review process before results are known. RRs also help to protect authors from questionable review practices that contribute to publication bias. Psychological assessment research typically involves hypothesis testing and is therefore susceptible to the same questionable research practices that plague experimental research. However, psychological assessment research differs somewhat from standard e...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - September 13, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Development and psychometric evaluation of a revised Sense of Coherence Scale.
The present study introduces a revised Sense of Coherence (SOC) scale, a new conceptualization and operationalization of the resilience indicator SOC. It outlines the scale development and aims for testing its reliability, factor structure, and validity. Literature on Antonovsky’s SOC (SOC-A) was critically reviewed to identify needs for improving the scale. The scale was investigated in two samples. Sample 1 consisted of 334 bereaved participants, Sample 2 of 157 healthy controls. The revised SOC Scale, SOC-A, and theoretically relevant questionnaires were applied. Explorative and confirmatory factor analyses establishe...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - June 11, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The development and initial validation of the Irrational Performance Beliefs Inventory (iPBI).
The growing use of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) in performance contexts (e.g., business, sport) has highlighted the absence of a contextually valid and reliable measure of irrational beliefs. This paper reports the development and initial validation of the Irrational Performance Beliefs Inventory (iPBI). The iPBI was developed to provide a validated measure of the four core irrational beliefs of REBT theory. Item development was completed in three stages comprising two expert panels and one novice panel, reducing and refining 176 items to 133. Then, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to refi...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - June 11, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research