European Journal of Psychological Assessment 
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We present a procedure for finding integral characterizations, consisting of a set of markers for the rotated factor defined by the individual’s score vector. For illustrations, we refer to the Five-Factor Personality Inventory (FFPI-III; see Hendriks et al., 2019). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment)
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - March 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Teaching quality in higher education: Agreement between teacher self-reports and student evaluations.
European Journal of Psychological Assessment, Vol 39(3), 2023, 176-181; doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000700Teaching quality is a crucial factor within higher education. Research on this topic often requires assessing teaching quality as a global construct through self-reports. However, such instruments are criticized due to the lack of alignment between teacher and student reports of instructional practices. We argue that while teachers might over- or under-estimate specific dimensions of teaching quality, the aggregation of these dimensions in the form of overarching teaching quality well reflects differences in teaching qualit...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - March 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Civic identity in emerging adulthood: Validation of the Civic Identity Status Scale.
In this study, we tested psychometric properties of the newly developed scale and provided evidence for its score, structure, and criterion validity in Slovenia through the lens of contemporary views on validity by testing a series of structural equation models. A sample of 493 emerging adults (aged 18–29 years) participated in an online survey. We determined criterion validity evidence by correlations of the CISS scores with measures of civic behavior, perceived political interest, trust, and self-efficacy and established generalizability evidence by testing the measurement invariance of the CISS across different subsam...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - March 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Conceptualization, measurement, and validation of effort- and valence-based just world beliefs.
European Journal of Psychological Assessment, Vol 39(3), 2023, 194-210; doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000703In this research, we propose that belief in a just world (BJW) can be divided into two distinct beliefs: one addressing the notion that efforts are rewarded, that is, effort-based BJW, and another maintaining that the valence associated with moral character leads to particular consequences, that is, valence-based BJW (e.g., good people are rewarded and bad people are punished). We used culturally relevant proverbs to design measures in German and Chinese. Samples of college students and working adults from both countries we...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - March 24, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Validation of an extended violent ideations scale to measure both non-sexual and sexual violent ideations (the VIS-X).
European Journal of Psychological Assessment, Vol 39(3), 2023, 157-164; doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000698A previous study developed and validated a multi-item instrument for the assessment of violent ideations, the “Violent Ideations Scale” (VIS). However, the final 12-item scale contained no items relating to sexual violence and was thus lacking an important dimension of violence. The current study explores an expansion of the original VIS to include ideations of sexual violence and investigates the psychometric properties of this new version: The Violent Ideations Scale-Extended (VIS-X). The VIS-X was completed by partic...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - March 17, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Validation of the behavioral health screen-depression with adolescents in residential care.
European Journal of Psychological Assessment, Vol 39(2), 2023, 124-131; doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000697The purpose of this study was to (1) examine the psychometric properties of the Behavioral Health Screen Depression Subscale (BHS-DS), including internal consistency, factor structure, convergent and discriminant validity, and (2) identify cut-off scores on the BHS-DS to distinguish patients with depression risk and their level of severity among an acute clinical sample of adolescents in residential psychiatric care. Participants included 861 youths ages 10–24 at residential treatment centers who completed a battery of me...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - March 17, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Identifying children with self-regulation problems: Factorial structure and psychometric properties of the QUVA-p, a screening tool for preschool teachers.
This study presents the psychometric properties of the questionnaire, which was investigated in a sample of 413 preschoolers. We tested for construct validity, measurement invariance across gender, subscale internal consistency, subscale convergent validity with executive control tasks (working memory, inhibitory control, and cognitive flexibility), and power to detect child differences in executive control. Results show that the factorial structure of the QUVA-p is in line with Nigg’s theoretical model of self-regulation and the subscales have good reliability. Measurement invariance is maintained across gender; the ins...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - March 17, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Validating the Enright Forgiveness Inventory – 30 (EFI-30): International studies.
This study reports the process of item reduction of the Enright Forgiveness Inventory – EFI, a measure of interpersonal forgiveness, from 60 to 30 items for a more practical assessment of this construct. Data from the US were used in the creation of the new measure and applied to seven nations: Austria, Brazil, Israel, South Korea, Norway, Pakistan, and Taiwan. The question was: do the best EFI-30 items from the US have discriminative power in seven other cultures? Results provided the psychometric evidence for the reduced version of the EFI-30 across cultures. The discrimination values are positive, suggesting that the ...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - March 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Why we need systematic reviews and meta-analyses in the testing and assessment literature.
The cumulative nature of science is arguably one of the main pillars for the advancement of scientific knowledge which relies on the accumulation of empirical findings. We strongly believe that, at the very least, systematic reviews (and in many cases also full-fledged meta-analyses) can and should be used to summarize insights gathered over time with a specific test, a family of assessments, or a domain of assessment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment)
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - March 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Actively open-minded thinking, bullshit receptivity, and susceptibility to framing: Evaluating the dual-process account in North America and Bulgaria.
European Journal of Psychological Assessment, Vol 38(6), 2022, 440-451; doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000685The framing effect occurs when different presentations of the same problem lead to predictably different preferences. The dual-process framework of higher cognition assumes that the effect violates rational principles, but alternative accounts and recent evidence have contested this interpretation. Contributing to this debate, we tested the dual-process assumption by investigating associations between susceptibility to framing and the willingness and ability to think in line with rational norms, conceptualized as actively o...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - February 24, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Cultural adaptation, validation, and psychometric description of the Pictorial Empathy Test (PET) in the Spanish population.
We report satisfactory convergent, discriminant, and nomological validity of the Spanish PET, as reported for the original version, in addition to when explored across new dimensions, like the Interpersonal Reactivity Index or in relation to age and prosocial tendencies. Based on the above, we discuss delineation of the distinct components of emotional empathy as measured by the instrument. The work presented supports the use of the Spanish PET version as a brief screening tool for state affective (emotional) empathy. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment)
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - February 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
“Measurement invariance of the SOC-13 Sense of Coherence Scale across gender and age groups.” Correction to Grevenstein & Bluemke, 2021.
Reports an error in "Measurement invariance of the SOC-13 Sense of Coherence Scale across gender and age groups" by Dennis Grevenstein and Matthias Bluemke (European Journal of Psychological Assessment, Advanced Online Publication, May 26, 2021, np). The article (https://doi.org/10.1027/ 1015-5759/a000641) has now been published as an open access article with “© The Author(s)” and under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. The following funding information has been added: Funding - Open access publication enabled by Heidelberg University. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2021-50737-001.) Sense of ...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - February 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Single item measures in psychological science: A call to action.
Single-item measures have a bad reputation. For a long time, adopting single-item measures was considered one of the surest methods of receiving a letter of rejection from journal editors (Wanous et al., 1997). As one research team noted, “it is virtually impossible to get a journal article accepted ... unless it includes multiple-item measures of the main constructs” (Bergkvist & Rossiter, 2007, p. 175). However, a series of articles published in the late 1990s and 2000s began to challenge the conventional view that single-item measures are an unsound approach to measuring cognitive and affective outcomes (Bergkvist &...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - February 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Ice is hot and water is dry: Developing equivalent reading tests using rule-based item design.
European Journal of Psychological Assessment, Vol 39(2), 2023, 96-105; doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000691To monitor students’ progress and adapt instruction to students’ needs, teachers increasingly use repeated assessments of equivalent tests. The present study investigates whether equivalent reading tests can be successfully developed via rule-based item design. Based on theoretical considerations, we identified 3-item features for reading comprehension at the word, sentence, and text levels, respectively, which should influence the difficulty and time intensity of reading processes. Using optimal design algorithms, a des...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - January 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Measuring reading progress in second grade: Psychometric properties of the quop-L2 test series.
This study presents evidence for the reliability, validity, and measurement invariance of a newly developed LPA for reading in Grade 2 (quop-L2 – quop Lesetest für zweite Klassen) that assesses the development of reading comprehension in German at the word, sentence, and text levels based on short, equivalent computer-based tests at three-week intervals. All tests were sufficiently reliable. The proposed three-dimensional structure was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis based on data from N = 1,913 second-grade students. In a subsample of n = 354 students, correlations between quop-L2 and a standardized reading t...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - January 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
