Paulhus Deception Scale--Italian Version; Short Form

WITHDRAWAL NOTICE for Cleliazurlo, M., Pes, D., & Romano, R. (2015). Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Index of Teaching Stress— Short Form (ITS—SF). Psychological Reports, 117(3), 763–780. DOI: 10.2466/ 08.PR0.117c24z5 The article has been withdrawn at the request of the author. The author contacted the journal to inform them that PARS, the rightsholder of the Index of Teaching Stress (“ITS”), expressed concern at the author’s unauthorized creation and publication of a short form version of the ITS. Although the author had received permission to validate an Italian version of ITS, the rights holder did not permit the development and publication of the resulting short form, and requested the article be withdrawn from access. If you have any questions about this, please contact SAGE. This study analyses factor structure and psychometric properties of the Italian short version of the Index of Teaching Stress–Short Form (ITS–SF). The original version of the ITS (90 items) was submitted to 567 teachers randomly drawn from a cross-section of school levels. Confirmatory factor analysis to check the factor structure was unsatisfactory, and Cronbach's α (.98) indicated a redundancy of items. Exploratory factor analysis was conducted for each section of the test and cross-loading items were eliminated. The resulting ITS–SF consists of 43 items, tapping eight meaningful and adequately reliable dimensions substantially corresponding to all dimensions measured by the original version of the ITS. The Italian short version of the Index of Teaching Stress constitutes a reliable measure of teacher stress in educative interactions.

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A preliminary validation of an Italian version of the Multidimensional Fatigue Symptom Inventory-Short Form (MFSI-SF-I)

Annals of Oncology ◽

10.1093/annonc/mdv346.10 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 26 ◽

pp. vi116

Author(s):

M.S. Pino ◽

S. Cheli ◽

F. Martella ◽

C. Melidei ◽

L. Caligiani ◽

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Keyword(s):

Short Form ◽

Italian Version ◽

Symptom Inventory ◽

Preliminary Validation

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Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Body Perception Questionnaire

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0251838 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (5) ◽

pp. e0251838

Author(s):

Francesco Cerritelli ◽

Matteo Galli ◽

Giacomo Consorti ◽

Giandomenico D’Alessandro ◽

Jacek Kolacz ◽

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Keyword(s):

Psychometric Properties ◽

Measurement Invariance ◽

Internal Consistency ◽

Short Form ◽

The Body ◽

Autonomic Reactivity ◽

Body Perception ◽

Italian Version ◽

Cronbach’S Alpha ◽

Cronbach's Alpha

Background/Objective The purpose of this study was to cross-culturally adapt the Body Perception Questionnaire Short Form (BPQ-SF) into Italian and to assess its psychometric properties in a sample of Italian subjects. Methods A forward-backward method was used for translation. 493 adults were recruited for psychometric analysis. Structural validity was assessed with confirmatory factor analysis and a hypothesis testing approach. Internal consistency was assessed by Cronbach’s alpha and McDonald’s omega. Measurement invariance analysis was applied with an age-matched American sample. Results The single-factor structure fit the awareness subscale (RMSEA = .036, CFI = .983, TLI = .982). Autonomic reactivity (ANSR) was well-described by supra- and sub-diaphragmatic subscales (RMSEA = .041, CFI = .984, TLI = .982). All subscales were positively correlated (r range: .50-.56) and had good internal consistency (McDonald’s Omega range: .86-.92, Cronbach’s alpha range: .88-.91). Measurement invariance analysis for the Awareness model showed significant results (p<0.001) in each step (weak, strong and strict) whereas the ANSR showed significant results (p<0.001) only for the strong and strict steps. Conclusions Our results support the Italian version of the BPQ as having consistent psychometric properties in comparison with other languages.

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Stress among medical students: factor structure of the University Stress Scale among Italian students

BMJ Open ◽

10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035255 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (9) ◽

pp. e035255

Author(s):

Igor Portoghese ◽

Fabio Porru ◽

Maura Galletta ◽

Marcello Campagna ◽

Alex Burdorf

Keyword(s):

Medical Students ◽

Convergent Validity ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Short Form ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Italian Version ◽

Cross Sectional Survey ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Stress Scale ◽

The University

ObjectivesThe main purpose of the current study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Italian version of the University Stress Scale (USS) among Italian medical students.Design, setting and participantsA cross-sectional observational study based on data from an online cross-sectional survey from 11 to 23 December 2018. A total of 1858 Italian medical students participated in the study.Outcome measuresWe measured perceived stress among medical students using the USS, the Effort-Reward Imbalance Student Questionnaire (ERI-SQ) and the Kessler-10 (K10).ResultsResults showed that a bifactor-Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling solution provided excellent levels of fit to the data. Our results suggest that the modified version of 19 items of the Italian version of the USS does not have a simple unidimensional structure. Overall, an inspection of ancillary indices (omega indices, ECV and percentage of uncontaminated correlations) revealed that these were too low to suggest the use of the USS as a composite measure of university stress. We tested an alternative unidimensional short form (eight items; USS-S) that assessed all the five sources of stress. This version provided a good fit to the data. Evidence of convergent validity of the USS-S was observed by analysing the correlations between the USS and ERI-SQ (ranging from −0.34 to 0.37, all p<0.01). Finally, based on the clinical cut-off recommended on the K10, results from receiver operating characteristic showed that considering the clinical cut-off of the USS is 7.5 and that 59.70% of medical students reported stress levels in the clinical range.ConclusionFinally, our results showed a lack of support for using the USS to measure a general university stress factor, as the general USS factor accounted for little variance in our sample. In this sense, stress scores among Italian students can be better assessed by the use of the USS-S.

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Metacognitions Questionnaire--Short Form; Italian Version

PsycTESTS Dataset ◽

10.1037/t64750-000 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Maria C Quattropani ◽

Vittorio Lenzo ◽

Massimo Mucciardi ◽

Mary E. Toffle

Keyword(s):

Short Form ◽

Italian Version

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