The Transformative Learning Outcomes and Processes Survey: A Validation Study in the Workplace Context

2021 ◽  
pp. 154134462110451
Author(s):  
Chang-kyu Kwon ◽  
Seung-hyun Han ◽  
Aliki Nicolaides
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
The United States ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Steel Manufacturing ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Learning Research

The purpose of this study was to assess the validity and reliability of the Transformative Learning Outcomes and Processes Survey (TROPOS) in the workplace context. The results of a confirmatory factor analysis of the data gathered from 132 employees of a steel manufacturing company in the United States have shown that the TROPOS is an appropriate instrument for measuring transformative learning in the workplace context. Implications for transformative learning research and practice will be discussed.

The Good Mothering Expectations Scale: An International Instrument Development Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-190
Author(s):  
Karen M. O’Brien ◽  
Sung-Kyung Yoo ◽  
Young Hwa Kim ◽  
Yoonjin Cho ◽  
Nazish M. Salahuddin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
White Mothers ◽  
Additional Support ◽  
Final Instrument

Our purpose in this research was to develop a measure that reflected cross-cultural and cultural-specific expectations of “good mothering.” We based our measure on samples of South Korean mothers ( n = 626) and White mothers in the United States ( n = 612). We developed an initial pool of 74 items that described good mothering in both cultures. We conducted exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses separately for each group. We found different factor structures: the South Korean sample had three factors, the United States’ sample yielded four factors. Two of these factors were similar in meaning across the groups, although the items that loaded onto these factors were not identical. Our analyses also yielded three factors unique to each group. The final instrument comprises 30 items that loaded onto both the shared and unique factors for the two groups. Additional support for the validity and reliability of the scale is presented.

The Ego Resiliency Scale Revised

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Alessandri ◽  
Michele Vecchione ◽  
Gianvittorio Caprara ◽  
Tera D. Letzring
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Latent Structure ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Multigroup Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Ego Resiliency

The present study examined the crosscultural generalizability of the latent structure of the ER89-R, a brief self-report scale that measures ego-resiliency with subjective self-ratings. First, we investigated the measurement invariance of the scale across three Western cultures, namely, Italy (n = 1,020), Spain (n = 452), and the United States (n = 808). Next, we examined the correlations of the ER89-R scale with several measures of adjustment and maladjustment. Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis provided evidence of partial configural, metric, and scalar invariance across Italy, Spain, and the United States. Overall, the correlation patterns were stable across countries and sex, with some exceptions. As expected, higher levels of ego-resiliency were strongly and consistently associated with the positive poles of the Big Five. Moreover, ego-resiliency showed a positive correlation with psychological well-being in each country, and negative relations with depression in Spain and Italy, but not in the United States. In light of these results, the potential usefulness and applicability of the ER89-R scale are advanced and discussed.

scholarly journals The COVID-19 Multifaceted Threat Scale

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Anderson ◽  
Adrian Lueders ◽  
Sindhuja Sankaran ◽  
Eva Green ◽  
Emanuele Politi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
The United States ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Reliability Estimates ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Psychometric Evidence

The COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented threat for individuals worldwide. This paper reports the initial psychometric properties for the recently developed COVID-19 Multifaceted Threat Scale. Across three studies the construction and initial psychometric evidence is presented. In Study 1 (n = 194, 11 national groups), we adopted an inductive qualitative methodology to elicit participants’ concerns, worries, or fears about the corona pandemic. A thematic analysis revealed 10 consistent themes around threat, from which we constructed a pool of 100 potential items. In Study 2, a sample from the United States (n = 322) provided data for an exploratory factor analysis which reduced the 100 items to 30 items across the 10 hypothesised dimensions sub-factors. In Study 3, these findings were then ratified in samples from the United States (n = 471) and India (n = 423) using a multi-group confirmatory factor analysis. We also present reliability estimates (internal consistency: Studies 2-3) and preliminary evidence of the validity for the scale across two national groups (United States and India). The evidence presented suggests that the COVID-19 Multifaceted Threat Scale is a psychometrically sound measure and can be used to explore current and long-lasting effects of the pandemic on individuals and societies.

scholarly journals Development and Initial Evaluation of the LGBTQ+ COVID-19 Concerns Scale

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 292-299
Author(s):  
Kimberly F. Balsam ◽  
Em Matsuno ◽  
Ariel Friedman ◽  
Vinisha Rana
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Mental And Physical Health ◽  
Item Scale ◽  
Time Future

COVID-19 has had negative health and economic impacts on the U.S. population and on marginalized groups in particular. While policy and review papers have noted the unique concerns of LGBTQ+ individuals during the pandemic, these statements have drawn largely from existing data on health and economic disparities, rather than data collected during COVID-19. Research on the unique concerns and experiences of LGBTQ+ people during this time is urgent and yet no culturally relevant, validated measures have been developed to empirically examine these concerns. The current study reports on the development and exploratory factor analysis of a new measure, the LGBTQ+ COVID-19 Concerns Scale (LGBTQ+-CCS). Data was collected online in April 2020 from a sample of 429 LGBTQ+ adults in the United States. The final 15-item scale demonstrated initial validity and reliability and contains four subscales: mental health concerns, financial concerns, health and discrimination concerns, and social isolation concerns. The LGBTQ+-CCS can be used in research and clinical work to measure how concerns related to the pandemic are related to mental and physical health and to examine differences between LGBTQ+ subpopulations and LGBTQ+ people over time. Future research should focus on further validating the measure through confirmatory factor analysis.

Religious and Spiritual Struggles in a German-Speaking Sample: a Validation Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Jessica Lampe ◽  
Isabelle Noth ◽  
Hansjörg Znoj
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
German Language ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Spiritual Struggles ◽  
First Time ◽  
German Adaptation

Abstract This paper presents the German adaptation and validation of the Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale (RSSS) (Exline et al. 2014). Religious and spiritual (r/s) struggles consist of inner conflicts regarding supernatural, interpersonal and intrapersonal concerns, which in the RSSS are categorized into six struggles: Divine, Demonic, Doubt, Interpersonal, Moral and Ultimate Meaning. The prevalence of these as well as mental health correlates and associations with centrality of religiosity were explored in a sample of 1359 German-speaking participants, primarily university students from Switzerland. Inner r/s struggles have primarily been studied in samples from the United States, and data are lacking for more secular societies such as Switzerland, where these struggles are experienced as well. For the first time, the RSSS was translated into and administered in the German language and its six-factor structure confirmed with confirmatory factor analysis.

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