Psychometric Properties of the CTS2-Argentinean Version

The Conflict Tactics Scale 2 (CTS2) is one of the most widely used measures for assessing violence between intimate partners. Many studies exploring its psychometric properties show factor structures that vary according to samples, analysis, or scale forms employed. This work aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the CTS2 in 819 undergraduates in Argentina. Some items had to be excluded from the analysis because of their null prevalence in this sample. Confirmatory factor analysis of the original five-factor model for perpetrated and suffered violence CTS2 forms indicated a good fit to the data in both men and women. Internal consistency was good for all subscales except for the perpetrated and suffered sexual coercion and perpetrated injuries subscales. The highest inter-factor correlations were found between the psychological aggression and physical assault subscales in the perpetration models, and between the physical assault and injuries subscales in the victimization models. Practical and theoretical implications of the results are discussed, and future lines of research are proposed.

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Examining the Psychometric Properties of the Epistemic Belief Inventory (EBI)

Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment ◽

10.1177/0734282912449436 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 72-79 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Timothy Teo

Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Psychometric Properties ◽

Elementary School Teachers ◽

Principal Axis ◽

Factor Model ◽

Five Factor Model ◽

Total Sample ◽

School Teachers ◽

Epistemic Belief ◽

Confirmatory Factor

The psychometric properties of the scores on the Epistemic Belief Inventory were examined using an exploratory factor analysis (principal axis factor) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) on a total sample of 1,242 elementary school teachers. Results of the EFA supported the hypothesized five-factor model but the items had loaded on different factors. Overall, the results showed that the five-factor model did not fit the data and that the EBI was not interpretable with the sample in this study.

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Reasons for Living Inventory for Adolescents: Psychometric Properties Among Portuguese Adolescents

OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying ◽

10.1177/0030222818819340 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 003022281881934 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Marta Sofia Ventosa Brás ◽

Cláudia Isabel Guerreiro Carmo ◽

Saul Neves de Jesus

Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Protective Factors ◽

Psychometric Properties ◽

Factor Model ◽

Five Factor Model ◽

Temporal Stability ◽

Good Reliability ◽

Reasons For Living ◽

Reasons For Living Inventory ◽

Portuguese Adolescents

Reasons for living are protective factors against suicidal behavior in adolescents. One of the most useful measures to assess them is the Reasons for Living Inventory for Adolescents (RFL-A) developed by Osman et al. The goal of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of its Portuguese version of the RFL-A. To this end, we recruited 512 high school adolescents (mean age = 16.7 years), who completed the RFL-A, a Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire, and a hopelessness scale. Exploratory factor analysis replicated the original five-factor model and confirmatory factor analysis obtained satisfactory adjustment values. The RFL-A shows good reliability (internal consistency and temporal stability) as well as good convergent, discriminant, and concurrent validities. These results indicate that the RFL-A is a valid and reliable measure to study protective factors against suicidal behaviors in Portuguese adolescents.

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Psychometric Properties of the Bern Illegitimate Tasks Scale – Spanish Version

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.593870 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Denisse Lizette Valdivieso Portilla ◽

Angélica Gonzalez Rosero ◽

Geovanny Alvarado-Villa ◽

Jorge Moncayo-Rizzo

Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Informed Consent ◽

Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽

Psychometric Properties ◽

Exploratory Factor Analysis ◽

Work Stress ◽

Factor Model ◽

Spanish Version ◽

Confirmatory Factor ◽

Written Informed Consent

In recent years, a new factor for work stress has been studied along with stress as an offense to self-theory. Illegitimate tasks refer to assignments that are unnecessary or are not related to the employee’s role. Because of this, the Bern Illegitimate Tasks Scale was developed, which measures illegitimate tasks in terms of unreasonable tasks and unnecessary tasks. There are no studies in Latin America on illegitimate tasks, so the purpose of this research is to translate and validate the Bern Illegitimate Tasks Scale. The study was performed with a sample of nursing staff from a hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Written informed consent was obtained from each of the participants. The reliability of the questionnaire was evaluated and its structural validity was verified by exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. The internal consistency of the whole scale, measured by Cronbach’s alpha, was 0.857. Moreover, the unnecessary and unreasonable subscales measure were 0.846 and 0.841, respectively. The exploratory factor analysis supported a two-factor model that explained 73.96% of the variance. Additionally, the confirmatory factor analysis showed good indexes of fit (GFI = 0.915, CFI = 0.955, TLI = 0.933, SRMR = 0.084, and RMSEA = 0.087). The Spanish version of the Bern Illegitimate Tasks Scale presents good psychometric properties and can be applied to nurses in the Ecuadorian population.

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Translation, Cultural Adaptation, and Psychometric Properties of the Danish Version of the Anti-Clot Treatment Scale

TH Open ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1670631 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 02 (03) ◽

pp. e280-e290 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Willemijn Comuth ◽

Henrik Lauridsen ◽

Steen Kristensen ◽

Anna-Marie Münster

Keyword(s):

Atrial Fibrillation ◽

Factor Analysis ◽

Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽

Psychometric Properties ◽

Treatment Satisfaction ◽

Factor Model ◽

Dabigatran Etexilate ◽

Danish Version ◽

Confirmatory Factor ◽

Test Retest Reliability

Background The Anti-Clot Treatment Scale (ACTS) is a 17-item, 2-factor (Burdens and Benefits), patient-reported outcome instrument to evaluate patient satisfaction with oral anticoagulant treatment. Objectives This study aimed to translate and culturally adapt the English version of the ACTS into Danish and to subsequently validate the Danish version in a population of patients treated with dabigatran etexilate for atrial fibrillation. Methods The ACTS was translated into Danish and culturally adapted. This prospective phase 4 study included 232 respondents who completed the Danish ACTS after 1 month of treatment with dabigatran etexilate for atrial fibrillation. Psychometric properties were evaluated. For test–retest reliability, the ACTS was measured twice, 2 weeks apart, in a subgroup of 50 stable patients. Results Generally, a high level of treatment satisfaction was found. Confirmatory factor analysis showed a suboptimal fit for the two-factor model of the original version. Using modification indices of confirmatory factor analysis, a four-factor model had the best fit. Cronbach's α for internal consistency was acceptable at 0.78. There was good test–retest reliability with intraclass correlation at 0.80. Smallest detectable changes (SDCs) for individual patients were 5.89 points for the total ACTS, 5.57 for the reverse Burdens, and 3.34 for Benefits scores. Group SDCs were 0.39, 0.37, and 0.22 respectively. Substantial ceiling effects limit the ability to detect improvement at the high end of the scale. Conclusion The Danish version of the ACTS has inadequate structural validity. Reliability was acceptable. Ceiling effects challenge detection of improvement of treatment satisfaction in clinical practice in this patient population.

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The structure of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in four cohorts of community-based, healthy older people: the HALCyon program

International Psychogeriatrics ◽

10.1017/s1041610210000256 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 22 (4) ◽

pp. 559-571 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

Catharine R. Gale ◽

Michael Allerhand ◽

Avan Aihie Sayer ◽

Cyrus Cooper ◽

Elaine M. Dennison ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽

Older People ◽

Exploratory Factor Analysis ◽

Factor Model ◽

Depression Scale ◽

Anxiety And Depression ◽

Hospital Anxiety ◽

Men And Women ◽

Confirmatory Factor

ABSTRACTBackground: The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is widely used but evaluation of its psychometric properties has produced equivocal results. Little is known about its structure in non-clinical samples of older people.Methods: We used data from four cohorts in the HALCyon collaborative research program into healthy aging: the Caerphilly Prospective Study, the Hertfordshire Ageing Study, the Hertfordshire Cohort Study, and the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921. We used exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis with multi-group comparisons to establish the structure of the HADS and test for factorial invariance between samples.Results: Exploratory factor analysis showed a bi-dimensional structure (anxiety and depression) of the scale in men and women in each cohort. We tested a hypothesized three-factor model but high correlations between two of the factors made a two-factor model more psychologically plausible. Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the sizes of the respective item loadings on the two factors were effectively identical in men and women from the same cohort. There was more variation between cohorts, particularly those from different parts of the U.K. and in whom the HADS was administered differently. Differences in social-class distribution accounted for part of this variation.Conclusions: Scoring the HADS as two subscales of anxiety and depression is appropriate in non-clinical populations of older men and women. However, there were differences between cohorts in the way that individual items were linked with the constructs of anxiety and depression, perhaps due to differences in sociocultural factors and/or in the administration of the scale.

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Confirmatory Factor Analysis of NEO-FFI-20 in a Portuguese Sample

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.02.052 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 41 (S1) ◽

pp. S255-S255

Author(s):

J.F. Dourado ◽

A.T. Pereira ◽

C. Marques ◽

J. Azevedo ◽

V. Nogueira ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽

Online Survey ◽

Factor Model ◽

Five Factor Model ◽

Openness To Experience ◽

Ongoing Research ◽

Portuguese Version ◽

Confirmatory Factor ◽

On The Road

IntroductionThe Five-Factor Model organizes human personality traits under a comprehensive framework of five dimensions–neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness. The dimensions are empirical generalizations of enduring differences in behavioural, emotional and cognitive patterns between individuals. The Portuguese version of the NEO-Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI-20) is increasingly used as it is the shortest version to evaluate the “Big 5”.ObjectiveTo investigate the reliability and the validity of the Portuguese version of NEO-FFI-20-item (Bertoquini & Pais Ribeiro) in a Portuguese sample, using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis (EFA and CFA).Methods747 participants [417 (55.8%) women; mean age = 42.13 ± 12.349 years] answered an online survey which included the NEO-FFI-20 and socio-demographic questions. The total sample was randomly divided in two sub-samples (sample A, n = 373; sample B, n = 374). Sample A was used to EFA and sample B was used to CFA.ResultsThe Portuguese version of NEO-FFI-20, excluding items 14 and 16, had an acceptable fit to the data (χ2/df = 2.28; TLI = .88; CFI = .90; RMSEA = .06; P = .059). The internal consistency analysis resulted in: Neuroticism, α = .68; Extraversion, α = .62; Openness to Experience, α = .74; Agreeableness, α = .70; and Conscientiousness, α = .74.ConclusionsThe NEO-FFI-20 can be used to reliably and validly evaluate the BIG FIVE in an ongoing research project on traffic psychology to better understand and respond to risky behaviours on the road.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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The Analysis of Internal Consistency and Internal Structure of Questionnaires of Tolerance / Intolerance to Ambiguity: IAS, TAN, MSTAT-I and MSTAT-II

Reflexio ◽

10.25205/2658-4506-2021-14-1-116-128 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 116-128

Author(s):

M. V. Zlobina

Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Internal Structure ◽

Internal Consistency ◽

Factor Model ◽

Five Factor Model ◽

Ambiguity Tolerance ◽

Confirmatory Factor ◽

Multiple Stimulus ◽

High Internal Consistency ◽

Intolerance Of Ambiguity

The article presents the results of internal consistency and internal structure analysis on a sampleof 184 subjects of the four most widely used questionnaires of tolerance / intolerance to ambiguity: the Intolerance to Ambiguity Scale (IAS) by S. Badner, Multiple Stimulus Types Ambiguity Tolerance Scale (MSTAT-I and MSTAT-II) D. McLane and the Tolerance-intolerance of ambiguity new questionnaire (TAN) by T. V. Kornilova. The IAS subscales showed low internal consistency, the Tolerance-intolerance of ambiguity new questionnaire scale showed satisfactory internal consistency and the MSTAT-I and MSTAT-II scales showed high internal consistency. Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the five-factor model of MSTAT-I, the other models were not confirmed on our data. Exploratory factor analysis revealed unsatisfactory internal structure of the IAS, TAN, MSTAT-II. The results of the study are discussed.

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Body Image after Breast Cancer Questionnaire: psychometric properties of the Persian version

10.21203/rs.2.10017/v1 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Mojgan Firouzbakht ◽

Seyed- Javad Rekabpour ◽

Majedeh Nabavian ◽

Maryam Nikpour ◽

Hamid Sharif Nia

Keyword(s):

Breast Cancer ◽

Body Image ◽

Factor Analysis ◽

Cancer Survivors ◽

Psychometric Properties ◽

Breast Cancer Survivors ◽

Five Factor Model ◽

Persian Version ◽

Confirmatory Factor ◽

Composite Reliability

Abstract Background: Assessing body image among breast cancer survivors is essential to the development of good treatment and rehabilitation plans. Culturally-appropriate methods and instruments are needed for body image assessment. The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the Persian version of Body Image after Breast Cancer Questionnaire. Methods: In this methodological study, the Body Image after Breast Cancer Questionnaire was translated into Persian through forward-backward translation. Then, its content validity was assessed by twelve experts, and 400 women with breast cancer completed the questionnaire. The construct validity of the questionnaire was evaluated through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses and its convergent and discriminant validity were evaluated using Fornell and Larcker’s approach. The reliability of the questionnaire was also evaluated through Cronbach’s alpha, McDonald’s omega, and composite reliability. Results: In exploratory factor analysis, five factors were extracted, namely vulnerability, body stigma, body-related shame, body satisfaction, and physical disability stigma. Confirmatory factor analysis also confirmed the fit of the five-factor model (χ2 = 466.95; N = 241; P < 0.001; PCFI = 0.728; PNFI = 0.624; CMIN/DF = 1.938; RMSEA = 0.068; AGFI = 0.808; IFI = 0.838). Second-order factor analysis also revealed that the subscales of the questionnaire measured an overarching concept which was labeled “Body image stigma”. The questionnaire had acceptable content and convergent validity and composite reliability. Conclusion: The Persian version of Body Image after Breast Cancer Questionnaire measures the broad concept of “Body image stigma”. The Persian BIBCQ has acceptable validity and reliability and hence, can be used for assessing body image among breast cancer survivors. Keyword: Body image, Breast cancer, Psychometric evaluation, Validity, Reliability

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Translation and Adaptation of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory-Short Form into Persian

The Open Psychology Journal ◽

10.2174/1874350102013010326 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 326-332

Author(s):

Hadis Amiri ◽

Maysam Rezapour ◽

Mahmoud Nekoei-Moghadam ◽

Nouzar Nakhaee

Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽

Posttraumatic Growth ◽

Factor Model ◽

Short Form ◽

Five Factor Model ◽

Internal Reliability ◽

Persian Version ◽

Confirmatory Factor ◽

Posttraumatic Growth Inventory

Purpose: Traumatic events and psychological damage are common, and the assessment of the growth in survivors of these events is critical. This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Persian Posttraumatic Growth Inventory-Short Form (PTGI-SF). Methods: This study was conducted in five phases: (1) forward and backward translation of the questionnaire based on the WHO protocol, (2) confirmatory factor analysis to assess construct validity with 563 participations (288 women and 275 men), aged 19-84 years (mean: 33.36 years), (3) Cronbach's alpha for internal consistency, (4) correlations with the Persian version of the Duke University Religion Index (DUREL) for assessing criterion-related validity, and (5) measurement of invariance across genders. Results: Confirmatory factor analysis supported the five-factor model consisting of relating to others, new possibilities, personal strength, spiritual change, and appreciation of life. All the dimensions of the PTGI-SF were moderately associated with the Persian version of the DUREL. The internal reliability of the subscales and full scale of the PTGI-SF were acceptable to satisfactory, and the configural, metric, and scalar invariance was found across genders. Conclusion: The Persian version of PTGI-SF is an acceptable, valid, and reliable tool for measuring posttraumatic growth in Iran.

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Five Factor Model in Iranian Culture: A Psychometrics Analysis of NEO-Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI)

International Journal of Indian Psychology ◽

10.25215/0104.028 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 1 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Manoochehr Azkhosh ◽

Ali Asgari

Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽

Construct Validity ◽

Factor Structure ◽

Internal Consistency ◽

Factor Model ◽

Five Factor Model ◽

Explanatory Factor Analysis ◽

Confirmatory Factor ◽

Neo Five Factor Inventory

This study aimed to investigate the construct validity and factor structure of NEO-Five Factor Inventory (Costa & McCrae, 1992) in Iranian population. Participants were 1639 (780 male, 859 female) Tehran people aged 15-71. The results of explanatory factor analysis showed no notable differences between the factor structures extracted by oblique and orthogonal rotations and didn’t replicate the scoring key. The Openness and Agreeableness had more psychometric problems (low internal consistency and high deleted items). The female’s NEO-FFI factor structure (with 41 items of 60 loaded on intended factors)was clearer than males’ (with 37 items). Confirmatory factor analysis supported the male’s latent modeling of the 31-item but failed to fit the female’s model. The women scored significantly higher in the Neuroticism, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness than men who scored significantly higher in the Extraversion. As previous findings, the current results showed the NEO-FFI’s cultural limitations assessing the universality of the Five Factor Model.

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