Investigation of the Factor Structure of the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ-8): One or Two Dimensions?

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Woźniak-Prus ◽  
Małgorzata Gambin ◽  
Andrzej Cudo ◽  
Carla Sharp
Keyword(s):  
Factor Structure ◽  
Reflective Functioning ◽  
Two Dimensions

Family Influence on Business: Application of A Modified F-PEC Scale to Private Small Business In Vietnam

2013 ◽  
pp. 38-53
Author(s):  
Nam Vu Hoang ◽  
Anh Truong Tuan ◽  
Nghia Nguyen Ke
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Family Influence ◽  
Cultural Aspect ◽  
Culture Dimensions ◽  
Business Application ◽  
Original Scale ◽  
Asian Context

This paper uncovers dimensions of family influence on private small business in Vietnam. Although the F-PEC scale, which comprises three subscales for power, experience and culture dimensions of family influence, has been validated in the literature, application of the scale in an Asian context, like Vietnam, may face challenges due to context differences. The study modified the original scale based on qualitative findings from five interviews with entrepreneurs and comments on the scale from business scholars. Data from a survey of 143 entrepreneurs were used for EFA, resulting in four factors. And CFA proves fitness of the measurement model of the four-factor structure to the data, in which two dimensions regarding the cultural aspect were confirmed.

scholarly journals Validation of the Turkish Version of the Problem Areas in Diabetes Scale

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth M. J. Huis In ‘T Veld ◽  
Ceylan Makine ◽  
Arie Nouwen ◽  
Çağatay Karşıdağ ◽  
Pinar Kadıoğlu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Factor Structure ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Self Report ◽  
World Health ◽  
Diabetes Distress ◽  
Turkish Version ◽  
Health Organization

The Problem Areas in Diabetes (PAID) scale is a widely used self-report measure that can facilitate detection of diabetes-specific emotional distress in clinical practice. The aim of this study was to assess the factor structure and validity of the Turkish version of the PAID. A validation study was conducted among 154 patients with insulin-naïve type 2 diabetes. Participants completed the PAID, Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), Insulin Treatment Appraisal Scale (ITAS), and World Health Organization-Five Well-Being Index (WHO-5) questionnaires. Exploratory factor analyses yielded a 2-factor structure, identifying a 15-item “diabetes distress” factor and a 5-item “support-related issues” factor. The total PAID-score and the two dimensions were associated with higher levels of depression and poor emotional well-being. In the present study, the Turkish version of the PAID had satisfactory psychometric properties, however, the factorial structure was found to differ from factor solutions from other countries.

scholarly journals Advancing Optimal Development in Children: Examining the Construct Validity of a Parent Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica De Roo ◽  
Gina Wong ◽  
Gwen R Rempel ◽  
Shawn N Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Construct Validity ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Reflective Functioning ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Parenting Competence ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Practical Measure

BACKGROUND Parental reflective functioning (PRF) is the capacity parents have to understand their own mental states and those of their children, as well as the influence of those mental states on behavior. Parents with greater capacity for PRF are more likely to foster secure attachment with their children. The Parental Development Interview is a gold standard measure of PRF but is hampered by cost, training, and length of administration. The 18-item Parent Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ-18) is a simpler option developed to capture 3 types of PRF: (1) prementalizing, (2) parent’s certainty, and (3) interest and curiosity surrounding a child’s mental state. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine the factor structure and select psychometric properties of the PRFQ in a sample of Canadian parents. METHODS We examined the factor structure and discriminant and construct validity of the PRFQ-18 among 306 parents (males=120 and females=186) across Canada; the age range of children was 0 to 12 years. Parents also completed Web-based measures of perceived stress, parental coping, parenting competence, and social support. RESULTS A confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the hypothesized 3-factor structure of the PRFQ-18 providing evidence that the PRFQ-18 may be a useful and practical measure of PRF in Canadian adults and showed minor revisions may improve the suitability of the PRFQ-18 for assessing PRF. CONCLUSIONS These results add support for the construct validity of the PRFQ-18.

scholarly journals Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of Persian Version of Relationship Emotional Schema Scale Among Iranian Victims of Domestic Violence

2021 ◽  
Vol In Press (In Press) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abbas Masoudzadeh ◽  
Somayeh Alami ◽  
Mehdi Pourasghar ◽  
Yazdan Naderi Rajeh
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Exploratory Factor Analysis ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Alpha Coefficient ◽  
Cronbach’S Alpha ◽  
Cronbach's Alpha

Background: After introducing the emotional schema model, two questionnaires are proposed to assess this structure. This study is the first validation research on the Relationship Emotional Schema scale (RESS) worldwide. Objectives: The present study aimed to assess the factor structure and psychometric properties of RESS among Iranian victims of domestic violence. Materials and Methods: This study used a correlational method, and the research population encompassed couples with the experience of domestic violence, who had referred to the Forensics Center of Sari Province in 2018. The sample size of the study was determined to be 227 persons selected by the convenience sampling method. To implement RESS for Iranian population after back translation, a pilot study was conducted on 50 persons. Moreover, internal consistency and exploratory factor analysis were performed to check its structure validity. Results: Fourteen items have a significant correlation with the scores of the relevant subscale (negative and positive relationship emotional schema). The reliability of these two dimensions was acceptable, as confirmed by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient with a range of 0.68 to 0.74. The total value of Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was 0.71. Exploratory factor analysis revealed four factors of RESS. Furthermore, a two-factor structure was extracted, and the correlation between items confirmed the structure validity of the scale. Convergent validity analyses revealed that negative and positive relationship emotional schemas had a significant correlation with the domestic violence domains and its total score and with neuroticism and extraversion. Conclusions: According to the present findings, RESS can be utilized in research and clinical practice.

scholarly journals Reduced Audit Quality Behavior Scale: Exploratory and Confirmatory Analysis Based on a Sample of External Auditors in Uganda

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-31
Author(s):  
Gerald Kasigwa
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Least Developed Countries ◽  
External Auditors

Reduced Audit quality Behavior (RAQB) has been linked to poor quality audits. Whereas reduce audit quality behavior has been studied for some time in developed countries, there has been little empirical research effort in least developed countries like Uganda geared towards understanding and operationalizing the factor structure of reduced audit quality acts. This research set out to establish and confirm a reliable and valid factor structure of reduced audit quality behavior. Data were collected from 351 certified public accountants (CPA’s) practicing as external auditors in Uganda. Exploratory factor Analysis produced a five factor model; with confirmatory factor analysis demonstrating good fit statistics. The reliability of the scales as measured by Cronbach’s alpha, construct reliability and average variance extracted was higher than the recommended minimum values confirming that reduced audit quality acts can be proxied by two dimensions namely; quick review and examination. Researchers in Uganda are advised to use these proxies while studying reduced audit quality behavior.

scholarly journals Analysis of a Safety Climate Measure for Occupational Vehicle Drivers and Implications for Safer Workplaces

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew R. Wills ◽  
Herbert C. Biggs ◽  
Barry Watson
Keyword(s):  
Factor Structure ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Generic Structure ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Current Sample

Safety climate, defined as workers' shared perceptions about the importance of safety to their organisation, has received increasing attention as a construct that is useful for benchmarking organisational safety and as a way of measuring the socio-organisational antecedents of safety performance. Few studies have utilised pre-existing safety climate measures and as a result of this, there is limited information about the generalisability of the construct and its underlying dimensions across organisations and industries. This is an important step towards establishing safety climate as a generic organisational construct which can be reliably measured. In those few cases where studies have used existing measures, results indicate inconsistencies in the underlying factor structures. Accordingly, using a sample of 321 employees from three separate organisations and industries, this study examined the factor structure of a modified version of an existing measure (the Safety Climate Questionnaire [SCQ]). Principal components factor analysis revealed that the original factor structure was upheld by the current sample (with the exception of two factors collapsing into one). This provides support for the generic nature of safety climate as it is operationalised by the SCQ. Additional items were included and emerged as two dimensions, providing support for the generalisability of these new factors across the organisations and industries employed. The results are of theoretical and practical significance as they provide evidence for the generic structure of the construct across organisations and industries, and exemplify how a measure of safety climate could be usefully employed in disability management planning and early intervention strategies.

scholarly journals Factor structure of the parental reflective functioning questionnaire and association with maternal postpartum depression and comorbid symptoms of psychopathology

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. e0254792
Author(s):  
Katrine I. Wendelboe ◽  
Johanne Smith-Nielsen ◽  
Anne C. Stuart ◽  
Patrick Luyten ◽  
Mette Skovgaard Væver
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Postpartum Depression ◽  
Measurement Invariance ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Reflective Functioning ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Parental Reflective Functioning ◽  
Reflective Skills ◽  
Maternal Postpartum Depression

Parental reflective functioning (PRF) refers to the parent’s capacity to envision mental states in the infant and in themselves as a parent, and to link such underlying mental process with behavior, which is important for parenting sensitivity and child socio-emotional development. Current findings have linked maternal postpartum depression to impaired reflective skills, imposing a risk on the developing mother–infant relationship, but findings are mixed, and studies have generally used extensive methods for investigating PRF. The present study examined the factor structure and measurement invariance of the Danish version of the 18-item self-report Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ) in a sample of mothers with and without diagnosed postpartum depression. Moreover, the association between PRF and maternal postpartum depression in mothers with and without comorbid symptoms of personality disorder and/or clinical levels of psychological distress was investigated. Participants included 423 mothers of infants aged 1–11 months. Confirmatory factor analysis supported a three-factor structure of the PRFQ; however, item loadings suggested that a 15-item version was a more accurate measure of PRF in mothers of infants. Multi-group factor analysis of the 15-item PRFQ infant version indicated measurement invariance among mothers with and without diagnosed postpartum depression. Multinomial logistic regression showed that impaired PRF was associated with maternal psychopathology, although only for mothers with postpartum depression combined with other symptoms of psychopathology. These results provide new evidence for the assessment of maternal self-reported reflective skills as measured by a modified infant version of the PRFQ, as well as a more nuanced understanding of how variance in symptomatology is associated with impaired PRF in mothers in the postpartum period in differing ways.

scholarly journals Psychometric properties and factor structure of the Greek version of Reflective Functioning Questionnaire

Psychiatriki ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 216-224
Author(s):  
F Griva ◽  
V. Pomini ◽  
R. Gournellis ◽  
G. Doumos ◽  
P. Thomakos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Reflective Functioning ◽  
Greek Version

Conners 3–Self-Report Scale: An empirical support to the dimensionality of the content scales

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 556-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viola Angela Izzo ◽  
Maria Anna Donati ◽  
Caterina Primi
Keyword(s):  
Measurement Invariance ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Rating Scales ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Learning Problems ◽  
Italian Version

The Conners’ Rating Scales are one of the most used instruments for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Nonetheless, in the latest edition, the Inattention scale was not statistically supported. This study examined the dimensionality of the Italian version of the Conners 3–Self-Report scale testing both a five-factor structure including Inattention and a four-factor model combining Inattention and Learning Problems. Moreover, the generalizability of the detected structure through measurement invariance was verified. The Italian version of the scale was completed by 971 children (53% males, mean age: 12.76 years) randomly split in a calibration sample ( n = 464) and a validation sample ( n = 507). Confirmatory factor analyses detected a five-factor structure (i.e. Inattention, Hyperactivity/Impulsivity, Learning Problems, Defiance/Aggression, and Family Relations), and measurement invariance was confirmed. Findings provided statistical evidence for the Inattention subscale, supporting the Conners 3–Self-Report Scale as effectively aimed to assess the two dimensions of ADHD and its main comorbid difficulties.

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