scholarly journals Evaluation of a Questionnaire Measuring University Students’ Sense of Belonging to and Involvement in a Biology Department

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. ar27
Author(s):  
Eva Knekta ◽  
Kyriaki Chatzikyriakidou ◽  
Melissa McCartney
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Validity Evidence ◽  
Biology Department ◽  
Instrument Measuring ◽  
Home Department

The article presents an instrument measuring university students’ sense of belonging to and involvement in their "home" department (biology), as well as initial validity evidence supporting the proposed use of the instrument.

scholarly journals Spanish Adaptation of the Overall Anxiety and Depression Severity and Impairment Scales in University Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 345
Author(s):  
Jorge Osma ◽  
Víctor Martínez-Loredo ◽  
Amanda Díaz-García ◽  
Alba Quilez-Orden ◽  
Óscar Peris-Baquero
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
University Students ◽  
Emotional Disorders ◽  
Dimensional Structure ◽  
Validity Evidence ◽  
Depression Severity ◽  
Good Reliability ◽  
Anxiety Depression

The lifetime prevalence of emotional disorders in Spain is 4.1% for anxiety and 5.2% for depression, increasing among university students. Considering the scarcity of screenings with adequate psychometric properties, this study aims to explore the validity evidence of the Overall Anxiety/Depression Severity and Impairment Scales (OASIS and ODSIS). A total of 382 university students from the general population were assessed on anxiety and depressive symptoms, as well as quality of life. The one-dimensional structure of both the OASIS and ODSIS explained 87.53% and 90.60% of variance, with excellent internal consistency (α = 0.94 and 0.95, respectively) and optimal cut-offs of 4 and 5, respectively. Both scales show a significant moderate association with other measures of anxiety, depression and quality of life. The OASIS and ODSIS have shown good reliability and sound validity evidence that recommend their use for the assessment and early detection of anxiety and depressive symptoms, and associated quality of life impairment in Spanish youth.

Pseudowords and guessing in the Yes/No format vocabulary test

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xian Zhang ◽  
Jianda Liu ◽  
Haiyang Ai
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
False Alarm ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Multiple Choice ◽  
False Alarms ◽  
Neighborhood Size ◽  
Validity Evidence ◽  
Vocabulary Test ◽  
Real Word ◽  
Vocabulary Size

The main purpose of this study is to investigate guessing in the Yes/No (YN) format vocabulary test. One-hundred-and-five university students took a YN test, a translation task and a multiple-choice vocabulary size test (MC VST). With matched lexical properties between the real words and the pseudowords, pseudowords could index guessing in the YN test as correlations between false alarms and real word guessing were high (> .80). This finding provides important validity evidence for correction formulas that employ false alarm information to adjust the YN test scores. Another important finding is that the neighborhood size of pseudowords was related to false alarm rates, which has useful implications for the designing of future YN tests. Finally, the corrected scores of the YN test correlated highly (> .70) with those of the translation task. In comparison, correlations between the YN corrected scores and the MC VST scores were lower, indicating a difference in guessing between the two tests.

The multidimensional subjective financial well-being scale for emerging adults: Development and validation studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 466-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Sorgente ◽  
Margherita Lanz
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Validity Evidence ◽  
Psychometric Characteristics ◽  
The Third ◽  
Financial Condition ◽  
Instrument Measuring ◽  
Development And Validation

After the 2008 economic crisis, the financial condition of youth has become a frequent research topic and the need for an instrument measuring financial constructs relevant for this stage of life is increasing. The current paper consists of four studies aiming to develop and validate an instrument measuring subjective financial well-being in a population of European emerging adults. The first study collected qualitative data – performing interviews with experts and the target population – in order to contextualize the construct. Based on these results, we developed the initial 44-item version of the scale. The second study aimed to test the psychometric characteristics of these items. There were 25 items measuring five different aspects of subjective financial well-being (general subjective financial well-being, money management, peer comparison, having money, financial future) with acceptable psychometric properties. The third study aimed to collect validity evidence about the newly developed scale. Five different kinds of evidence suggested that the scale is a good measure of subjective financial well-being. The last study tested measurement invariance between the Portuguese and Italian versions of the scale. Results suggested that the Multidimensional Subjective Financial Well-being Scale works well in both countries.

A sense of belonging among Australian university students

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 376-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evianne L. van Gijn-Grosvenor ◽  
Penelope Huisman
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Sense Of Belonging

scholarly journals Harmful Leader Behaviors: Toward an Increased Understanding of How Different Forms of Unethical Leader Behavior Can Harm Subordinates

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Guedes Almeida ◽  
Deanne N. Den Hartog ◽  
Annebel H. B. De Hoogh ◽  
Vithor Rosa Franco ◽  
Juliana Barreiros Porto
Keyword(s):  
Abusive Supervision ◽  
Leader Behavior ◽  
Validity Evidence ◽  
Excessive Pressure ◽  
Instrument Measuring ◽  
Related Absenteeism ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Unethical Leadership ◽  
Knowledge Hiding ◽  
Safety Knowledge

AbstractResearch on unethical leadership has predominantly focused on interpersonal and high-intensity forms of harmful leader behavior such as abusive supervision. Other forms of harmful leader behavior such as excessively pressuring subordinates or acting in self-centered ways have received less attention, despite being harmful and potentially occurring more frequently. We propose a model of four types of harmful leader behavior (HLB) varying in intensity (high vs low) and orientation (people/relationships or tasks/goals): Intimidation, Lack of Care, Self-Centeredness, and Excessive Pressure for Results. We map out how these relate to other constructs in the unethical leader behavior field in order to integrate the existing work on how leaders can cause harm to followers. Next, in five studies (N = 35, N = 218, N = 352, N = 160, N = 1921 in 196 teams), we develop and test a new survey instrument measuring the four proposed types of perceived HLB. We provide initial validity evidence for this new measure, establish its psychometric properties, and examine its nomological network by linking the four types of HLB to related leadership constructs and soft and hard outcome correlates at the individual and team level. We find that HLB is negatively related to constructive forms of leadership (e.g., ethical and transformational) and positively to unethical ones (e.g., abusive supervision). HLB is also related in the expected direction to job satisfaction, engagement, psychological safety, knowledge sharing, knowledge hiding, deviance, and objectively recorded team-level stress-related absenteeism.

scholarly journals Student belongingness in higher education: Lessons for Professors from the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-20
Author(s):  
Dianne Tice ◽  
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Roy Baumeister ◽  
Joseph Crawford ◽  
Kelly-Ann Allen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Education Student ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
Learner Engagement ◽  
Significant Drop ◽  
Significant Point

‘To learn about X, observe what happens to the system when X is removed.’ What happens to the higher education student experience when, during a pandemic, so many of the avenues for building a sense of belonging are radically and fundamentally disrupted? How should we respond as individuals, a collective and a sector, to redress this? The national student survey data in Australia has highlighted a significant drop in learner engagement and their sense of belonging as a result of the pandemic. Indeed, the pandemic has been a significant point of anxiety for students, educators, and universities globally. We see the pandemic as a unique opportunity to critically examine belongingness among university students in a climate where their normal avenues to feel they belong need to establish a new kind of normal. In this article, we seek to articulate what can be learned from the pandemic experience about student belongingness and what instructors can do to improve it, even under difficult circumstances. We found opportunities to strengthen a students’ sense of belonging in online environments, when necessary, and how responses within the constraints of lockdown and emergency remote teaching can still support student success.

A qualitative exploration of young female Muslims’ perspectives of abortion and belonging following the 2018 Irish Abortion Referendum

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yumna Agha ◽  
Keith Gaynor
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Young Female ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Religious Minority ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
National Debate ◽  
The Impact

Background: In 2018, Ireland conducted a referendum, ultimately supporting the legalisation of abortion. Views of religious minority groups can go unheard “by an insensitive majority” in national cultural debates. This study explores female Muslim university students’ perspectives on abortion and the impact of the national debate on their sense of belonging within Ireland. Methodology: Ten female Muslim university students completed semi-structured interviews. The interview comprised seven open questions examining perspectives on abortion and sense of belonging. A thematic analysis was carried out on the data.Results: Seven major themes emerged: (1) Particular Circumstances, (2) Islam, (3) Family, (4) Misuse of new laws, (5) Sense of belonging, (6) Consequences of traditional laws, and (7) Premarital sex. Participants were largely supportive of the legal changes, as it was in-line with their religious beliefs. Participants indicated that sense of belonging would have been affected if their religious beliefs had conflicted with the referendum outcome. Conclusions: Participants were largely supportive of the legalising of abortion in Ireland provided that the new laws were in line with their Islamic beliefs. Despite an increasingly liberal outcome of the 2018 Irish referendum, it was found that young Muslim women’s sense of belonging to Ireland was not affected

Young People in the Age of Crisis. Discovering Patterns of Change in Cosmopolitanism and Attitudes towards Europe/European Union among University Students in Southern Italy

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-165
Author(s):  
Massimo Pendenza ◽  
Dario Verderame
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Young People ◽  
University Students ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Social ◽  
European Crisis ◽  
The Eu

Since 2008, the European crisis, in its many forms, has brought about an increase in inequality and has loosened the social bonds between EU citizens. It is the young who have been hit hardest by the consequences of the crisis, as much in the short term as in the long term. One would reasonably expect the European crisis to have affected young people’s sense of belonging to Europe and to the EU. We will deal with this issue from the perspective of cosmopolitanism. In particular, this article, based on data from two surveys conducted in 2014 and 2018 among young university students in southern Italy, will attempt to ascertain whether the crisis is the background for young people’s changed ‘cosmopolitan openness’ (their sense of belonging and attitude to other people), their ideas about Europe, and the depth and manner of their support for the EU; it looks at those dimensions, both jointly and separately, bringing out the finer points. While cosmopolitan feelings and support for the EU do not seem to have changed to any great extent among the young people interviewed, they are far from presenting a homogeneous group as regards their views on diversity, Europe, and their support for the European Union.

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