Assessing a Norwegian Translation of the Organizational Climate Measure

2013 ◽  
Vol 112 (2) ◽  
pp. 390-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vilde Hoff Bernstrøm ◽  
Jon Anders Lone ◽  
Cato A. Bjørkli ◽  
Pål Ulleberg ◽  
Thomas Hoff
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Competing Values ◽  
Reliable Measure ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
International Service ◽  
Stable Factor ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Preliminary Support

This study investigated the Norwegian translation of the Organizational Climate Measure developed by Patterson and colleagues. The Organizational Climate Measure is a global measure of organizational climate based on Quinn and Rohrbaugh's competing values model. The survey was administered to a Norwegian branch of an international service sector company ( N = 555). The results revealed satisfactory internal reliability and interrater agreement for the 17 scales, and confirmatory factor analysis supported the original factor structure. The findings gave preliminary support for the Organizational Climate Measure as a reliable measure with a stable factor structure, and indicated that it is potentially useful in the Norwegian context.

Attachment Avoidance and Anxiety in Adolescence: Turkish Adaptation of the Experiences in Close Relationships-Relationship Structures Scale

2018 ◽  
Vol 122 (4) ◽  
pp. 1372-1394
Author(s):  
Savaş Karataş ◽  
İlkay Demir
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Attachment Avoidance ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
Retest Reliability ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Relationship Structures ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

The aim of the present study is to test the factor structure and reliability of the Experience of Close Relationships-Relationship Structures Scale (ECR-RS) mother, father, romantic partner, close friend forms among Turkish adolescents. In order to test the structure validity of the ECR-RS, exploratory factor analysis is performed on a sample of 214 participants in Study 1, and to further investigate the structure validity, confirmatory factor analysis is performed on a second sample of 286 participants in Study 2. Within the scope of the reliability studies of the ECR-RS, internal reliability and test–retest reliability of the Turkish ECR-RS are also tested. The results of the explanatory and confirmatory factor analysis, Cronbach’s alpha coefficients, and test–retest reliability scores supported the original two-factor structure (attachment avoidance and attachment anxiety) for all forms of the ECR-RS among Turkish adolescents.

Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Index of Teaching Stress—Short Form (ITS—SF)

2015 ◽  
Vol 117 (3) ◽  
pp. 763-780 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Cleliazurlo ◽  
Daniela Pes ◽  
Rosaria Romano
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Teacher Stress ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Original Version ◽  
Short Version ◽  
Italian Version ◽  
Reliable Measure ◽  
Confirmatory Factor

WITHDRAWAL NOTICE for Cleliazurlo, M., Pes, D., & Romano, R. (2015). Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Index of Teaching Stress— Short Form (ITS—SF). Psychological Reports, 117(3), 763–780. DOI: 10.2466/ 08.PR0.117c24z5 The article has been withdrawn at the request of the author. The author contacted the journal to inform them that PARS, the rightsholder of the Index of Teaching Stress (“ITS”), expressed concern at the author’s unauthorized creation and publication of a short form version of the ITS. Although the author had received permission to validate an Italian version of ITS, the rights holder did not permit the development and publication of the resulting short form, and requested the article be withdrawn from access. If you have any questions about this, please contact SAGE. This study analyses factor structure and psychometric properties of the Italian short version of the Index of Teaching Stress–Short Form (ITS–SF). The original version of the ITS (90 items) was submitted to 567 teachers randomly drawn from a cross-section of school levels. Confirmatory factor analysis to check the factor structure was unsatisfactory, and Cronbach's α (.98) indicated a redundancy of items. Exploratory factor analysis was conducted for each section of the test and cross-loading items were eliminated. The resulting ITS–SF consists of 43 items, tapping eight meaningful and adequately reliable dimensions substantially corresponding to all dimensions measured by the original version of the ITS. The Italian short version of the Index of Teaching Stress constitutes a reliable measure of teacher stress in educative interactions.

scholarly journals Adaptation and Validation of the Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale-Revised (CAMS-R) in People Living with HIV in Myanmar

Mindfulness ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feifei Huang ◽  
Wei-Ti Chen ◽  
Cheng-Shi Shiu ◽  
Sai Htun Lin ◽  
Min San Tun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Factor Structure ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Subscale Score ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
Good Reliability ◽  
Total Correlation ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Three Factor

Abstract Objectives Valid and reliable instruments for the measurement of mindfulness are crucial for people living with HIV. However, there was no Myanmar version of such an instrument. Methods We adapted the English version of the 12-item Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale-Revised (CAMS-R) based on standard cross-cultural procedures. By randomly sampling methods, a sample of 248 eligible people living with HIV was contacted from a closed Myanmar Facebook group; 159 PLHIV completed the initial 12-item version of the adapted survey. Results Three items were removed due to low item-to-total correlations of the corrected item-total correlation as well as having infit and outfit mean squares outside the range of 0.6 to 1.4. After deleting the 3 items, the three-factor structure was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis, which indicated good model fit. The resultant 9-item CAMS-R in Myanmar (CAMS-R-M-2) achieved good internal reliability (Cronbach’s α of 0.75 to 0.87, and the corrected item-total correlation ranged from 0.44 to 0.81). Construct validity of the scale was demonstrated by significant association with self-reported HIV stigma and social support levels (r = 0.63, and − 0.53). In Rasch analysis, the infit and outfit mean squares for each item ranged from 0.49 to 1.24, and the person reliability was 2.17 and the separation index was 0.83. Conclusions The 9-item CAMS-R-M-2 with a three-factor structure has good reliability and validity. Higher total scores and subscale score reflected greater mindfulness qualities in people living with HIV in Myanmar.

scholarly journals Concurrent Validity of the Adult Eating Behavior Questionnaire in a Canadian Sample

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara R. Cohen ◽  
Lisa Kakinami ◽  
Hugues Plourde ◽  
Claudia Hunot-Alexander ◽  
Rebecca J. Beeken
Keyword(s):  
Construct Validity ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Eating Behavior ◽  
Emotional Eating ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
Fit Statistics ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Uncontrolled Eating ◽  
The Relationship

The current study aimed to test the factor structure of the Adult Eating Behavior Questionnaire (AEBQ), its construct validity against the Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire (TFEQ-R18) and its associations with body mass index (BMI) in Canadian adults (n = 534, 76% female). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) revealed that a seven-factor AEBQ model, with the Hunger subscale removed, had better fit statistics than the original eight-factor structure. Cronbach’s alpha was used to assess the internal reliability of each subscale and resulted with α > 0.70 for all subscales except for Hunger (α = 0.68). Pearson’s correlations were used to inform the convergent and discriminant validation of AEBQ against the TFEQ-R18 and to examine the relationship between AEBQ and BMI. All AEBQ Food Approach subscales positively correlated with that of the TFEQ-R18 Emotional Eating and Uncontrolled Eating subscales. Similarly, BMI correlated positively with Food Approach subscales (except Hunger) and negatively with Food Avoidance subscales (except Food Fussiness). These results support the use of a seven-factor AEBQ for adults self-reporting eating behaviors, construct validity of the AEBQ against TFEB-R18, and provide further evidence for the association of these traits with BMI.

The Parent Version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisanne L. Stone ◽  
Roy Otten ◽  
Linda Ringlever ◽  
Marieke Hiemstra ◽  
Rutger C. M. E. Engels ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Measurement Invariance ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Child Psychopathology ◽  
Strengths And Difficulties Questionnaire ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Strengths And Difficulties ◽  
Meaningful Group ◽  
Dutch Sample ◽  
Parent Version

The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a widely used screening instrument for child psychopathology. Many studies have consistently reported rather low α values for certain subscales for the SDQ parent version. Further, the factor structure has not been tested frequently by using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA); research into measurement invariance is even scarcer. Therefore, this study evaluates the internal reliability and tests for measurement invariance for the SDQ parent version. In a Dutch sample of 1,484 children we examined reliability by using coefficient ω and tested for invariance across several subgroups. Also, we conducted CFA to examine the five-factor structure of the SDQ. ω yielded higher values than α did, which supports the use of ω in a SEM-based framework. Support for measurement invariance was found on the configural, metric, and scalar level, and as expected, the five-factor structure was confirmed. Scholars are advised to consider ω as an alternative to α, seeing that various problems with α have been discussed. Support for measurement invariance was found for several demographic variables, so that meaningful group comparisons can now be made for the SDQ parent version.

Factor Structure of the Italian Version of the Religious Fundamentalism Scale

2013 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Carlucci ◽  
Marco Tommasi ◽  
Aristide Saggino
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Religious Fundamentalism ◽  
Dimensional Structure ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Italian Version ◽  
Reliable Measure ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Catholic Religion ◽  
Correlated Factors

The Religious Fundamentalism Scale was applied to an Italian group, composed of 250 participants, to assess if it could be considered a reliable measure of fundamentalism. All participants professed to be believers of the Catholic religion. The overall group was split randomly into two smaller groups. The data of the first group were analyzed with an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to test the factor structure of the Italian version of the scale. The data of the second sample were analyzed with a confirmatory factor analysis, to test the factor structure that emerged from EFA. Results indicated a two-dimensional structure, composed of two correlated factors apparently representing believing and skeptical attitudes.

scholarly journals Psychometric properties of the parent’s versions of the SDQ and the PANAS-X in a community sample of Portuguese parents

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 520-532
Author(s):  
Pedro Alexandre Costa ◽  
Fiona Tasker ◽  
Catarina Ramos ◽  
Isabel Leal
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Groups

This study examined the psychometric properties of the parent’s versions of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule–Extended Form (PANAS-X) in a community sample of Portuguese parents. A total of 1100 SDQ and PANAS-X were collected from an online sample of 761 parents, whose ages ranged from 23 to 65 years ( M = 42, SD = 5). Confirmatory factor analyses provided evidence of the internal factor structure of both the SDQ and the PANAS-X and invariance of the factor structure across age and gender groups, with the exception of the SDQ, which failed to provide evidence of invariance between genders. Internal reliability and discriminant validity were confirmed for both measures, although convergent validity was only confirmed for the PANAS-X. Concurrent validity was also confirmed by comparing the results from the SDQ dimensions and the PANAS-X broad dimensions subscales.

scholarly journals Escala de compromiso deportivo: una adaptación de la Escala de Compromiso en el Trabajo de Utrecht (UWES) para ambientes deportivos

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Félix Guillén ◽  
Julio Román Martínez-Alvarado
Keyword(s):  
Factor Structure ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Football Players ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Utrecht Work Engagement Scale ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Adequate Internal Consistency ◽  
Preliminary Support

The Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) is an instrument designed by Schaufeli y Bakker (2003) to measure engagement in the work context. The purpose of the present study is to adapt the UWES to the sports context. The sample consists of 240 national third division Spanish football players between the ages of 15 and 38. The UWES factor structure has been analyzed through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. The results reveal a three-factor structure of the scale (vigor, absorption and dedication) and also an adequate internal consistency in all cases. Finally the results show preliminary support for the validity of the construct as sport burnout is negatively related to the three engagement characteristics. These findings provide preliminary evidence for the benefits of using the UWES in the sports context.

Development and Validation of the Diet-Related Beliefs of Exercisers Scale

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-124
Author(s):  
Simone Dohle ◽  
Mitch J. Duncan ◽  
Tamara Bucher
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Reliable Measure ◽  
Diet And Exercise ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Development And Validation ◽  
Weight Loss Interventions

Many exercise-based weight-loss interventions result in considerably less weight loss than predicted. One possible explanation could be that people have certain beliefs about the interplay of exercise and food that also influence their eating behavior, such as the belief that food is a reward for exercise. The current research outlines a systematic multiphase process to develop a psychometrically sound scale to assess these beliefs. In Study 1, regular exercisers (N = 520) completed an exploratory questionnaire on their beliefs related to diet and exercise. In Study 2 (N = 380), the factor structure of the newly developed scale was corroborated by confirmatory factor analysis. In addition, a test–retest (N = 166) was used to confirm reliability and stability. In sum, the Diet-Related Beliefs of Exercisers Scale with its four subscales (“Refrain from Eating,” “Food as Reward,” “Healthy Eating,” and “Nutritional Replenishment”) represents a valid and reliable measure of exercisers’ diet-related beliefs.

scholarly journals Crenshaw et al. (2017) - Revised scoring and improved reliability for the Communication Patterns Questionnaire

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander O. Crenshaw ◽  
Andrew Christensen ◽  
Donald H. Baucom ◽  
Norman B. Epstein ◽  
Brian Baucom
Keyword(s):  
Factor Structure ◽  
Communication Patterns ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Couple Communication ◽  
Individual Outcomes ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Demand Withdraw

The Communication Patterns Questionnaire (CPQ; Christensen, 1987) is a widely used self-report measure of couple communication behavior and is well-validated for assessing the demand/withdraw interaction pattern, which is a robust predictor of poor relationship and individual outcomes (Schrodt, Witt, & Shimkowski, 2013). However, no studies have examined the CPQ’s factor structure using analytic techniques sufficient by modern standards, nor have any studies replicated the factor structure using additional samples. Further, the current scoring system uses fewer than half of the total items for its four subscales, despite the existence of unused items that have content conceptually consistent with those subscales. These characteristics of the CPQ have likely contributed to findings that subscale scores are often troubled by sub-optimal psychometric properties such as low internal reliability (e.g., Christensen, Eldridge, Catta-Preta, Lim, & Santagata, 2006). The present study uses exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses on four samples to re-examine the factor structure of the CPQ to improve scale score reliability and to determine if including more items in the subscales is warranted. Results indicate that a three-factor solution (constructive communication and two demand/withdraw scales) provides the best fit for the data. That factor structure was confirmed in the replication samples. Compared with the original scales, the revised scales include additional items that expand the conceptual range of the constructs, substantially improve reliability of scale scores, and demonstrate stronger associations with relationship satisfaction and sensitivity to change in therapy. Implications for research and treatment are discussed.

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