A Comparison of Factor Models on the PCL-R With Mentally Disordered Offenders

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 526-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Vitacco ◽  
Richard Rogers ◽  
Craig S. Neumann ◽  
Kimberly S. Harrison ◽  
Gina Vincent
Keyword(s):  
Factor Model ◽  
Factor Models ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Mentally Disordered Offenders ◽  
Mentally Disordered ◽  
Psychopathy Checklist ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Psychopathy Checklist Revised ◽  
Personality Features ◽  
Three Factor

For more than a decade, researchers and practitioners have generally accepted a two-factor model for the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) composed of core personality features and an antisocial lifestyle. Very recently, Cooke and Michie (2001) proposed a three-factor solution that divided the core personality features into two dimensions while eliminating antisocial behavior. This study of male, mentally disordered offenders ( N = 96) directly compared factor models via confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). When using testlets to combine theoretically similar items into single ratings, the nested three-factor model was an excellent fit. Of importance, the development of a four-factor model with the inclusion of antisocial items also produced an excellent fit. Combined with recent research, these findings have important ramifications for the construct validity of the PCL-R.

Factor Structure of Psychopathy in Youth

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall T. Salekin ◽  
Dia N. Brannen ◽  
Alecia A. Zalot ◽  
Anne-Marie Leistico ◽  
Craig S. Neumann
Keyword(s):  
Factor Model ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Factor Models ◽  
Adolescent Offenders ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Psychopathy Checklist ◽  
Affective Factors ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Three Factor

Psychopathy has traditionally been viewed as a two-factor construct composed of core personality and antisocial features. This two-factor model was called into question by Cooke and Michie. Specifically, Cooke and Michie proposed a three-factor model that divided the original first factor into interpersonal and affective factors. The traditional second factor was reduced to only including irresponsible and impulsive behaviors, thereby deemphasizing antisocial characteristics. Recently, Hare found evidence of a four-factor model that reincorporates antisocial items. The current study examined two-, three-, and four-factor structures in adolescent offenders ( N = 130) via confirmatory factor analyses. The results suggest that the two-factor model was a poor fit; however, three- and four-factor models evidenced good fit and were justifiable. These findings have important implications for the construct validity of the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version. Implications for potential developmental trajectories, dangerousness, and treatment are discussed.

The Self-Consciousness Scale: A Confirmatory Analysis

1986 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 809-810 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Gould
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Factor Models ◽  
The Self ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Confirmatory Analysis ◽  
Public Self Consciousness ◽  
Three Factor

The Self-consciousness Scale measures three dimensions, private self-consciousness, public self-consciousness, and social anxiety. The present research tested previously used three- and four-factor models of the scale. Results, using confirmatory factor analysis, showed that a modified three-factor model, different from the others, fined the data best.

Structure of the SOC-13 in Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Clients: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen-Ping Lin ◽  
Chung-Yi Chiu ◽  
Connie Sung ◽  
Justine Lai ◽  
Fong Chan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Sense Of Coherence ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Factor Models ◽  
Factorial Structure ◽  
Community Programs ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Assessment And Treatment ◽  
Three Factor

AbstractThe objective of the study was to validate the factorial structure of the short form of the Sense of Coherence Scale (SOC-13) with a sample of substance abuse clients to facilitate health promotion research with this population in the future. Participants were 406 clients recruited from seven residential therapeutic community programs for the treatment of substance abuse. Four confirmatory factor models were tested: (1) a three-factor correlated model; (2) a two-factor correlated model; (3) a 13-item one-factor model; and (4) a 9-item one-factor model. The results indicated that the data did not fit the three-factor correlated model and the two-factor correlated model, whereas empirical data fits the 13-item one-factor and the 9-item one-factor models reasonably well, with the latter representing a significantly better fit than the former one. These results are consistent with previous studies and reflected a unidimensional factor in the sense of coherence, as opposed to the two or three-factor structure. The SOC-9 has considerable promise as a brief measure of SOC in substance abuse assessment and treatment settings.

Working Memory, Mental Prospection, Time Orientation, and Cognitive Insight

2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 159-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sevtap Cinan ◽  
Aslı Doğan
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Time Orientation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Cognitive Insight ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Three Factor

This research is new in its attempt to take future time orientation, morningness orientation, and prospective memory as measures of mental prospection, and to examine a three-factor model that assumes working memory, mental prospection, and cognitive insight are independent but related higher-order cognitive constructs by using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The three-factor model produced a good fit to the data. An alternative one-factor model was tested and rejected. The results suggest that working memory and cognitive insight are distinguishable, related constructs, and that both are distinct from, but negatively associated with, mental prospection. In addition, structural equation modeling (SEM) showed that working memory had a strong positive effect on cognitive insight and a moderate negative effect on mental prospection.

scholarly journals Choosing Factors for the Vietnamese Stock Market

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Nina Ryan ◽  
Xinfeng Ruan ◽  
Jin E. Zhang ◽  
Jing A. Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Stock Returns ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Factor Models ◽  
Marginal Contribution ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
Factor Modeling ◽  
Three Factor ◽  
Better Than

In this paper, we test the applicability of different Fama–French (FF) factor models in Vietnam, we investigate the value factor redundancy and examine the choice of the profitability factor. Our empirical evidence shows that the FF five-factor model has more explanatory power than the FF three-factor model. The value factor remains important after the inclusion of profitability and investment factors. Operating profitability performs better than cash and return-on-equity (ROE) profitability as a proxy for the profitability factor in FF factor modeling. The value factor and operating profitability have the biggest marginal contribution to a maximum squared Sharpe ratio for the five-factor model factors, highlighting the value factor (HML) non-redundancy in describing stock returns in Vietnam.

THE LEVENSON LOCUS OF CONTROL SCALES: CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSES AND EVALUATION

1997 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul K. Presson ◽  
Steven C. Clark ◽  
Victor A. Benassi
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Depressive Symptomatology ◽  
Predictive Ability ◽  
Factor Models ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Three Factor

Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to test the factor structure of several versions of Levenson's (1973) locus of control scales. Two- and three-factor models based on all 24 of Levenson's items and on 20 of her items were tested. The 3-factor models provided a good fit. Models proposed by R. M. Shewchuk, G. A. Foelker Jr., and G. Niederehe (1990) and R. M. Shewchuk, G. A Foelker Jr., C. J. Camp, and F. Blanchard-Fields (1992) also provided a good fit of the data. In concurrent and prospective tests of the predictive ability of the various models, the 24 and 20 item versions of Levenson's models accounted for a significant amount of variance In depressive symptomatology. The three-factor models revealed that only scores on the chance scale reliably predicted time 2 depressive symptomatology. Neither of the models proposed by Shewchuk and colleagues accounted for a significant amount of variance.

scholarly journals Psychometric Properties of the Slovak Version of Short Dark Triad

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 649-666
Author(s):  
Radka Čopková ◽  
Leoš Šafár
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Dark Triad ◽  
Slovak Population ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Convergent And Divergent Validity ◽  
Time Test ◽  
Test Retest Reliability ◽  
Three Factor

The Short Dark Triad is a scale used to capture three aversive personality traits—Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy on the subclinical level. The present study aimed to verify the psychometric properties of the Slovak version of the Short Dark Triad scale in three studies. The first two studies aimed to examine the reliability of the scale. The aim of Study 1 was to examine the factor structure of SD3. A three-factor model consisting of three latent intercorrelated factors in a unidimensional and bifactorial model were examined on a sample of 588 participants. Study 2 aimed to test the consistency of the results over time (test–retest reliability) on the sample of 117 participants. In Study 3, convergent and divergent validity was examined on the sample of 333 participants. For both kinds of validity examination, the Slovak version of NEO-FFI was used. The internal consistency of the subscales and test results, the same as the retest results, were satisfactory. The relationships between the scales were found to be significant. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) results supported the original three-factor model. Significant interrelations have been established between Machiavellianism and openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness; narcissism and neuroticism, extraversion and agreeableness; psychopathy and openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness. The Short Dark Triad achieved satisfactory values of reliability and validity; therefore, it can be used on the Slovak population.

Three-Factor Structure of Adult Attachment in the Workplace: Comparison of British, French, and Italian Samples

2014 ◽  
Vol 115 (2) ◽  
pp. 627-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabrizio Scrima ◽  
Liliane Rioux ◽  
Lucrezia Lorito
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Construct Validity ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Three Factor

The goal was to compare three-factor and two-factor solutions and construct validity of the Adult Attachment in the Workplace (AAW) questionnaire. Participants were 660 volunteers from three countries (France, Italy, and Great Britain). The two-factor model of Neustadt, Chamorro-Premuzic, & Furnham (2006) and the three-factor theoretical model of Collins and Read (1990) were compared. Construct validity was assessed by calculating correlations among the two- and three-factor AAW, the Workplace Attachment Scale, and the Organizational Commitment Scale. The three-factor structure differentiated between the three attachment styles, i.e., secure, preoccupied, and avoidant. There were moderate, significant correlations between AAW, workplace attachment, and affective commitment. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the three-factor structure fit the data better. Furthermore, the AAW, the Workplace Attachment Scale, and the Organizational Commitment Scale can be considered independent. In line with previous empirical evidence, a further distinction is noted between avoidant and preoccupied styles in the workplace.

scholarly journals Deletion statistic accuracy in confirmatory factor models

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 205979912091834
Author(s):  
Jennifer Koran ◽  
Fathima Jaffari
Keyword(s):  
Factor Model ◽  
Model Misspecification ◽  
Statistical Simulation ◽  
Factor Models ◽  
Case Deletion ◽  
Difference Statistic ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Cook’S Distance ◽  
Cook's Distance ◽  
Influential Cases

Social science researchers now routinely use confirmatory factor models in scale development and validation studies. Methodologists have known for some time that the results of fitting a confirmatory factor model can be unduly influenced by one or a few cases in the data. However, there has been little development and use of case diagnostics for identifying influential cases with confirmatory factor models. A few case deletion statistics have been proposed to identify influential cases in confirmatory factor models. However, these statistics have not been systematically evaluated or compared for their accuracy. This study evaluated the accuracy of three case deletion statistics found in the R package influence.SEM. The accuracy of the case deletion statistics was also compared to Mahalanobis distance, which is commonly used to screen for unusual cases in multivariate applications. A statistical simulation was used to compare the accuracy of the statistics in identifying target cases generated from a model in which variables were uncorrelated. The results showed that Likelihood distance and generalized Cook’s distance detected the target cases more effectively than the Chi-square difference statistic. The accuracy of the Likelihood distance and generalized Cook’s distance statistics was unaffected by model misspecification. The results of this study suggest that Likelihood distance and generalized Cook’s distance are more accurate under more varied conditions in identifying target cases in confirmatory factor models.

scholarly journals Peplau’s Theory of Interpersonal Relations

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Hagerty ◽  
William Samuels ◽  
Andrea Norcini-Pala ◽  
Eileen Gigliotti
Keyword(s):  
Factor Structure ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Model Fit ◽  
Middle Range ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Range Theory ◽  
Consumer Assessment ◽  
Three Factor

A confirmatory factor analysis of data from the responses of 12,436 patients to 16 items on the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems–Hospital survey was used to test a latent factor structure based on Peplau’s middle-range theory of interpersonal relations. A two-factor model based on Peplau’s theory fit these data well, whereas a three-factor model also based on Peplau’s theory fit them excellently and provided a suitable alternate factor structure for the data. Though neither the two- nor three-factor model fit as well as the original factor structure, these results support using Peplau’s theory to demonstrate nursing’s extensive contribution to the experiences of hospitalized patients.

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