The Importance of Money Scale (IMS): A new instrument to measure the importance of material well-being

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is threefold. Firstly, a new concept, teacher buoyancy, is introduced. Based on the significance to study how teachers bounce back from minor and frequent setbacks (vs. major adversities emphasized in resilience) in their daily work and the research on buoyancy by Martin and Marsh, a dual-component framework to conceptualize this new concept is introduced. Secondly, the development of a new instrument, the Teacher Buoyancy Scale (TBS), to measure it is presented. Thirdly, results of a study using the TBS are reported, which provide insights into how teacher buoyancy can be fostered.Design/methodology/approachThe study employed a quantitative design. A total of 258 teachers taking a part-time initial teacher education (ITE) program completed the TBS. Their responses were analyzed by exploratory factor analysis (EFA). In addition to descriptive statistics and reliability coefficients, Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated to examine the relationship among the factors.FindingsThe data analysis indicated five factors, namely, Coping with difficulties, Bouncing back cognitively and emotionally, Working hard and appraising difficulties positively, Caring for one's well-being and Striving for professional growth. These factors can be readily interpreted by the dual-component framework. Correlations among the factors further revealed that enabling factors can be subdivided into more proximal personal strengths relating to direct coping, and more distal personal assets pertaining to personal well-being. It is the latter that correlates most highly with perceived teacher buoyancy.Originality/valueThe most original contribution of this paper is the proposal of the new concept of teacher buoyancy which is teachers' capacity to deal with the everyday challenges that most teachers face in their teaching. The delineation between buoyancy and resilience sharpens the focus of the problem domain that is most relevant to teachers. The development of the TBS provides a useful and reliable instrument to examine teacher buoyancy in future studies.

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Initial Development of the Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention Parental Self-Efficacy Scale: A Pilot Study

Autism Research and Treatment ◽

10.1155/2017/9512180 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2017 ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

Aaron Blocher-Rubin ◽

Paige Krabill

Keyword(s):

Pilot Study ◽

Behavioral Intervention ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Well Being ◽

Future Research ◽

Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention ◽

Clinical Tool ◽

Initial Development ◽

Intensive Behavioral Intervention ◽

New Instrument

Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) is an effective treatment for children with autism. However, it is known that some parents struggle to fully implement the program, and providers are not always able to identify the specifics of each family’s individualized challenges. The purpose of this pilot study was to begin the process of developing a new instrument, the EIBI Parental Self-Efficacy (EPSE) Scale, to help providers better assess and assist parents in regard to EIBI implementation. The methodology included four phases: scale construction, expert review, pretest administration, and a large sample pilot study (N = 192). The final 29-item EPSE Scale contained strong reliability properties (Cronbach’s alpha = .900). Factor analysis established five subscales: Family Well-Being, Preparing for Successful Sessions, Team Participation, Not Giving Up, and Working with your Child. Following this pilot study, future research is recommended to refine and validate the EPSE Scale as a useful clinical tool for EIBI providers.

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The Spirituality Index of Well-Being: A New Instrument for Health-Related Quality-of-Life Research

The Annals of Family Medicine ◽

10.1370/afm.89 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 2 (5) ◽

pp. 499-503 ◽

Cited By ~ 96

Author(s):

T. P. Daaleman

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Well Being ◽

Health Related Quality ◽

Quality Of Life Research ◽

New Instrument ◽

Related Quality ◽

Health Related

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Redefining and assessing emotional understanding based on the componential emotion approach

South African Journal of Psychology ◽

10.1177/0081246317714681 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 48 (2) ◽

pp. 243-254 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Eva Kefilwe Sekwena ◽

Johnny RJ Fontaine

Keyword(s):

Undergraduate Students ◽

Well Being ◽

Self Report ◽

Emotional Understanding ◽

Cultural Backgrounds ◽

Black African ◽

New Instrument ◽

Student Version ◽

African Student ◽

Action Tendencies

This article reports on a redefinition and a new operationalisation of the construct of emotional understanding based on the componential emotion approach. Emotional understanding was redefined as the ability to understand the likely emotional processes (i.e., appraisals, action tendencies, bodily reactions, expressions, and subjective feelings) that emerge when a person encounters goal-relevant events. In all, 10 emotions were identified to represent the variability in the emotion domain. For each emotion, a scenario was constructed that typically elicits that emotion. For each scenario, participants had to rate the likelihood of five emotions, five appraisals, five action tendencies, five bodily reactions, five expressions, and five subjective feelings. The new instrument, the Components of Emotional Understanding Test–South African Student version, was administered to 132 undergraduate students from diverse cultural backgrounds. Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the expected one-factorial structure. Emotional understanding correlated positively with verbal cognitive ability, self-report emotional intelligence, and well-being and was negatively correlated with somatic complaints. Moreover, women outscored men, and no difference was observed between respondents with Black African and White cultural backgrounds.

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Work-nonwork interference: Preliminary results on the psychometric properties of a new instrument

SA Journal of Industrial Psychology ◽

10.4102/sajip.v36i1.908 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 36 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Eileen Koekemoer ◽

Karina Mostert

Keyword(s):

Life Satisfaction ◽

Psychometric Properties ◽

Convergent Validity ◽

Well Being ◽

Job Characteristics ◽

Cross Sectional Survey ◽

Tertiary Institution ◽

Research Attention ◽

New Instrument ◽

Work Family

Orientation: Recently, a new work-nonwork interference instrument was developed to measure the interference between work and nonwork roles in the South African context (Koekemoer, Mostert & Rothmann, 2010). However, no information is available on the psychometric properties of this instrument.Research purpose: The objectives of this study were to investigate the internal validity (construct, discriminant and convergent validity), reliability and external validity (relationship with theoretically relevant variables, including job characteristics, home characteristics, burnout, ill health and life satisfaction) of the instrument.Motivation for the study: Work-family interaction is a key topic receiving significant research attention. In order to facilitate comparison across work-family studies, the use of psychometrically sound instruments is of great importance.Research design, approach and method: A cross-sectional survey design was used for the target population of married employees with children working at a tertiary institution in the North West province (n = 366). In addition to the new instrument, job characteristics, home characteristics, burnout, ill health and life satisfaction were measured.Main findings: The results provided evidence for construct, discriminant and convergent validity, reliability and significant relations with external variables.Practical/managerial implications: The new instrument can be used by researchers and managers as a test under development to investigate the interference between work and different nonwork roles (i.e. parental role, spousal role, work role, domestic role) and specific relations with antecedents (e.g. job/home characteristics) and well-being (e.g. burnout, ill health and life satisfaction).Contribution/value-add: This study provides preliminary information on the psychometric properties of a new instrument that measures the interference between work and nonwork.

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New Instrument to Describe Indicators of Well-Being in Old Old Patients with Severe Dementia: Vienna List

Optimizing Health: Improving the Value of Healthcare Delivery ◽

10.1007/978-0-387-33921-4_8 ◽

2007 ◽

pp. 56-65 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Franz Porzsolt ◽

Marina Kojer ◽

Martina Schmidl ◽

Elfriede R. Greimel ◽

Jörg Sigle ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Well Being ◽

Severe Dementia ◽

Old Patients ◽

New Instrument

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The Measurement of Employee Well-being: Development and Validation of a Scale

Global Business Review ◽

10.1177/0972150919859101 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 097215091985910 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rabindra Kumar Pradhan ◽

Lopamudra Hati

Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Service Industry ◽

Well Being ◽

Initial Study ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Field Surveys ◽

Practical Applications ◽

New Instrument ◽

Confirmatory Factor ◽

Development And Validation

Employee well-being is always found to be strategically relevant to organizations and individuals and has developed into one of the focal areas of research in the study of organizations. However, researchers have shown lots of interest in this field due to the lack of a proper theoretical model and comprehensive scientific tools to measure employee well-being at work. The present study aims at developing and validating a multidimensional scale of employee well-being through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Based on literature and feedback received from academicians and HR practitioners, a 62-item questionnaire of employee well-being was developed for empirical validation. The samples consist of academicians and HR professionals, and they were interviewed to gauge their understanding of employee well-being. Initially, opinions from various experts were obtained regarding the instrument and its proposed dimensions. Forty-nine items were generated from the initial study for further validation through field surveys. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was carried out on the data collected from 316 employees of the Indian service industry to examine the factor structure of the scale. It was revealed through the use of EFA that the new instrument of employee well-being is formed by four discreet factors: social well-being, psychological well-being, subjective well-being and workplace well-being. Finally, CFA was carried out using AMOS 20, 31 items were retained for the new scale of employee well-being. The theoretical and practical applications of the study are discussed in the context of employee well-being.

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Assessing Individual Differences in the Affective Experience of Dreams: The Jena Dream Inventory–Affect Scales (JeDI-A)

Assessment ◽

10.1177/1073191119847767 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 27 (8) ◽

pp. 1946-1959

Author(s):

Birk Hagemeyer ◽

Sarah Salomo ◽

Cordelia Engelhardt ◽

Franz J. Neyer ◽

Sven Rupprecht

Keyword(s):

Individual Differences ◽

Discriminant Validity ◽

Clinical Sample ◽

Temporal Stability ◽

Economic Assessment ◽

Well Being ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

New Instrument ◽

Valid Instrument

The study reports on the validation of a new instrument for the assessment of emotional experiences in dreams. The Jena Dream Inventory–Affect (JeDI-A) contains 21 items and 3 scales, positive dream affect, negative dream affect, and dream intensity, providing a differentiated yet economic assessment of dream affect. Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses in a sample of university students ( N = 426) and a clinical sample of patients with sleep disorders ( N = 149) supported factorial validity and measurement invariance, high temporal stability (over 1 year and 9 months in the students and patients, respectively), convergent and discriminant validity regarding established measures of dream affect and the Big Five, and criterion validity regarding subjective well-being. Cross-lagged panel models showed reciprocal longitudinal effects between dream affect and waking affect. We conclude that the JeDI-A is a valid instrument for differentiated investigations of individual differences in dream affect in clinical and nonclinical populations.

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The Development and Validation of a New Multidimensional Test Anxiety Scale (MTAS)

European Journal of Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1027/1015-5759/a000604 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

David W. Putwain ◽

Nathaniel P. von der Embse ◽

Emma C. Rainbird ◽

Geoffrey West

Keyword(s):

Test Anxiety ◽

Mental Health Problems ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Well Being ◽

Elevated Risk ◽

Cognitive Interference ◽

Physiological Indicators ◽

New Instrument ◽

Correlated Factors ◽

Development And Validation

Abstract. Although test anxiety has a long history in the educational and psychological literature there is a lack of census over its dimensionality. The aim of the present study was to clarify the dimensionality of test anxiety and develop a new instrument to reflect this dimensionality. Across two empirical studies we tested and refined a new multidimensional instrument comprising of two cognitive dimensions (Worry and Cognitive Interference) and two affective-physiological dimensions (Tension and Physiological Indicators). In both studies, four-correlated-factors and higher order models showed a good fit to the data. Test anxiety was positively related to an existing test anxiety measure (the Test Anxiety Inventory) and an elevated risk of mental health problems, and negatively related to school well-being and examination performance. This new instrument will prove a welcome addition for practitioners, to assist in the identification of highly test anxious students who may require support or intervention, and test anxiety researchers.

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