Psychometric Assessment of the Short Grit Scale Among Chinese Adolescents

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingguang Li ◽  
Yajun Zhao ◽  
Feng Kong ◽  
Shuailing Du ◽  
Suyong Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Chinese Adolescents ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
School Students ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

This study sought to validate the Short Grit Scale (Grit-S), an instrument that measures perseverance and passion for long-term goals, among Chinese high school students. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed that the scale retains the two-factor structure of the original scale. The scale demonstrated satisfactory internal consistency and test–retest reliability. Evidence for construct validity was found in relation to the Big Five personality traits, self-control, and IQ. Evidence for criterion validity was found via the observation that grit explained unique variance in academic performance. Together, the Grit-S is a sound measure of grit among Chinese adolescents.

Confirmatory Factor Analyses of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) in a Turkish Adolescent Sample

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dilek Sarıtaş-Atalar ◽  
Tülin Gençöz ◽  
Ayça Özen
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Concurrent Validity ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
School Students ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Difficulties In Emotion Regulation ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Adolescent Sample ◽  
Age Appropriate

The aim of the present study was to explore the psychometric properties of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) among Turkish adolescents. A total of 595 high school students (300 females and 295 males) whose ages ranged between 14 and 17 years participated in the study, and were administered the DERS, the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), and the Childhood Depression Inventory (CDI). Confirmatory factor analyses supported the six-factor structure of the DERS among adolescents. In addition, results indicated sound internal consistency as well as concurrent validity. It is concluded that the DERS is a valid age-appropriate measure for investigating emotion regulation difficulties in adolescents.

Sport Motivation Orientations: Beware of Jingle-Jangle Fallacies

1994 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 365-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert W. Marsh
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Task Orientation ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
School Students ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Sport Motivation ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Validity Studies ◽  
Highly Correlated

The similarity of the constructs measured by the Perceptions of Success Questionnaire (POS; Roberts, 1993) and the Sports Orientation Questionnaire (SOQ; Gill, 1993) were evaluated using (a) confirmatory factor analyses of responses by 395 high school students (217 males, 178 females, ages 12 to 18) to items adapted from the two instruments and (b) relations to external criteria. Although the POS Mastery and SOQ Goal scales were highly related and reflected task orientation, the SOQ Competitiveness scale was more highly correlated with the POS Mastery and SOQ Goal scales than with the POS Competitiveness scale. Apparently, competitiveness assessed by the SOQ reflects a task orientation, whereas the POS Competitiveness scale reflects primarily an ego orientation. Sport psychologists need to beware of jingle (scales with the same label reflect the same construct) and jangle (scales with different labels measure different construct) fallacies, and pursue construct validity studies more vigorously to test the interpretations of measures.

Multigroup Confirmatory Component and Factor Analyses of the Italian Version of the Aggression Questionnaire1

2003 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Fossati ◽  
Cesare Maffei ◽  
Elena Acquarini ◽  
Antonella Di Ceglie
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Italian Version ◽  
School Students ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Aggression Questionnaire

Summary Multisample confirmatory factor analyses were carried out in samples of Italian university and high school students in order to assess the replicability of the factor structure in the Italian version of the Aggression Questionnaire by Buss and Perry. Item-level multiple-group component analysis confirmed Buss and Perry's 4-factor structure of the Aggression Questionnaire items in both samples. The results of multisample maximum likelihood confirmatory factor analysis of scale scores supported the hypothesis of single aggression latent dimension underlying the four Aggression Questionnaire scales, the structure of which was invariant across the two samples.

Homework Emotion Regulation Scale: Confirming the Factor Structure With High School Students

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianzhong Xu ◽  
Xitao Fan ◽  
Jianxia Du
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Cognitive Reappraisal ◽  
Emotion Management ◽  
Math Performance ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
School Students ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Tenth Graders ◽  
Confirmatory Factor

The current investigation studied psychometric properties of the Homework Emotion Regulation Scale (HERS) for math homework, with 915 tenth graders from China. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) supported the presence of two separate yet related subscales for the HERS: Emotion Management and Cognitive Reappraisal. The latent factor means for both subscales were shown to be invariant across gender. Furthermore, both subscales were positively related to homework purposes and behaviors (effort and completion) in the theoretically expected directions. Meanwhile, math performance was positively related to emotion management, but not cognitive reappraisal.

scholarly journals The Development of an Integrated Scale of Technology Use in Physics

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fikret Korur ◽  
Sevda Yerdelen-Damar ◽  
Havva Sağlam
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
School Students ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Physics Courses ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Technological Tools ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Reliable Scale

In this study, the Integrated Scale of Technology Use in Physics (ISTUP) was developed to determine students’ frequency of technology use, their perceptions about the effects of technology use on physics interest and achievement, and their preferences of technological tools and applications in learning physics. The scale was administered two different times to 670 high school students in total who took physics courses. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to validate the scale. The results of the study suggest that the ISTUP is a valid and reliable scale. Students’ frequency of technology use in learning physics corresponded to ‘sometimes’. Students perceived that technology use had slightly positive effect on their interest and achievement. Findings regarding the interrelations between students’ preference for technological tools and applications were also discussed.

scholarly journals Κατασκευή και ψυχομετρικός έλεγχος της Κλίμακας Αξιολόγησης και Καταγραφής Στρατηγικών Παραγωγής Γραπτού Λόγου

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Κωνσταντίνος Μαστροθανάσης ◽  
Πέτρος Ρούσσος ◽  
Μαρία Κουλιανού
Keyword(s):  
Written Expression ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Primary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Final Version ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Psychometric Tool ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

The main objective of the present study was the construction of a psychometric tool for the assessment of strategies on writing designed for students aged 10 to 12 years and based on the theoretical framework of Chamot & O’Malley (1990). The instrument’s validity was tested through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses on the data collected from a sample of 917 primary school students attending grades 5 and 6. Test-retest reliability and internal consistency were also examined. The final version of the tool is reliable and contains 23 items organized in four factors measuring cognitive, metacognitive, social and emotional strategies of written expression.

scholarly journals Assessing High School Student’s STEM Career Interests Using a Social Cognitive Framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Cheng Mau ◽  
Shr-Jya Chen ◽  
Chi-Chau Lin
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
School Students ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Measurement Models ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Stem Career

This study investigated the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the STEM Career Interest Survey (STEM-CCIS) with data from 590 high-school students in Taiwan. Measurement models based on Social-Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) and STEM discipline-specific dimensions (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) were examined using confirmatory factor analyses. Findings from confirmatory factor analyses indicated that STEM-CCIS possesses adequate reliability and factorial validity, replicating the sound psychometric properties of the original English version of the STEM-CIS. Implications for the use of the STEM-CCIS are discussed.

scholarly journals Analysis of the psychometric properties of the Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale in the Polish adolescent sample

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Magdalena Kwiatkowska ◽  
Radosław Rogoza ◽  
Katarzyna Kwiatkowska
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
External Validity ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
School Students ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Loneliness Scale ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Adolescent Sample

The current study examines the psychometric properties of the Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale: structural validity, reliability and external validity. We conducted a study on a sample of 247 high school students, all aged 16. In order to verify hypotheses, scales measuring feeling of loneliness, shyness and self-esteem were administered. As a result of confirmatory factor analyses, it has been demonstrated that the structure of R-UCLA is three-factorial, the factors presents as follows: (1) intimate others, referring to the feeling of exclusion; (2) social others, referring to the lack of closeness and support in relationships; and (3) belonging and affiliation, referring to the lack of community bonds—all of which are reliable in their measurement as well as the total score of R-UCLA. Moreover, we demonstrated that the feeling of loneliness is positively related with shyness and negatively related with self-esteem. The obtained results support using the R-UCLA among Polish adolescents.

French Adaptation of the Childhood Executive Functioning Inventory (CHEXI)

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinne Catale ◽  
Caroline Lejeune ◽  
Sarah Merbah ◽  
Thierry Meulemans
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Executive Functioning ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Cognitive Measures ◽  
Factor Solution ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Rating Instrument ◽  
Functioning Inventory ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

Thorell and Nyberg (2008 ) recently developed the Childhood Executive Functioning Inventory (CHEXI), a new rating instrument for executive functioning in day-to-day life which can be divided into four subscales: working memory, planning, inhibition, and regulation. Using an exploratory factor analysis on data from young Swedish children attending kindergarten, Thorell and Nyberg (2008 ) found a two-factor solution that taps working memory and inhibition. In the present study, we explored the psychometric characteristics of the French adaptation of the CHEXI. A group of 95 parents of 5- and 6-year-old children completed the CHEXI, 87 of whom were given clinical inhibition and working memory tasks. Confirmatory factor analyses confirmed the two-factor solution based on inhibition and working memory that was identified in the original study of Swedish children. Supplementary results indicated good internal and test-retest reliability for the entire scale, as well as for the two subscales identified. Correlation analyses showed no relationship between cognitive measures and the CHEXI subscales. Possible clinical applications for the CHEXI scales are discussed.

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