Factorial Structure of the Death Concern Scale

1976 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo Klug ◽  
Marvin Boss
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Factorial Structure ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Definition Of Death ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Single Score ◽  
Item Scores ◽  
Definition Of

Dickstein's (1972) 30-item Death Concern Scale was developed as a measure of the extent to which an individual consciously contemplates death and evaluates it negatively. Scoring procedures provide a single score as a measure of death concern. Dickstein's definition of death concern and an examination of the items support the authors' contention that two aspects of death concern are being measured. Factor analyses of the item scores of 671 college students indicated the presence of two distinct factors in the Death Concern Scale. One factor represented Dickstein's “conscious contemplation of death” component, the other the “negative evaluation” component. The results of the factor analyses corroborated the subjective judgments of 5 independent judges and the authors of this article. It is suggested that the usefulness of this instrument may be enhanced by the utilization of separate scores for each of these two factors.

EIGENTIME IDENTITY OF THE WEIGHTED KOCH NETWORKS

Fractals ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (03) ◽  
pp. 1850042 ◽  
Author(s):  
YU SUN ◽  
JIAHUI ZOU ◽  
MEIFENG DAI ◽  
XIAOQIAN WANG ◽  
HUALONG TANG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transition Matrix ◽  
Small World ◽  
Laplacian Matrix ◽  
Block Matrix ◽  
The Other ◽  
Small World Networks ◽  
Eigenvalues And Eigenvectors ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Analytical Research ◽  
Definition Of

The eigenvalues of the transition matrix of a weighted network provide information on its structural properties and also on some relevant dynamical aspects, in particular those related to biased walks. Although various dynamical processes have been investigated in weighted networks, analytical research about eigentime identity on such networks is much less. In this paper, we study analytically the scaling of eigentime identity for weight-dependent walk on small-world networks. Firstly, we map the classical Koch fractal to a network, called Koch network. According to the proposed mapping, we present an iterative algorithm for generating the weighted Koch network. Then, we study the eigenvalues for the transition matrix of the weighted Koch networks for weight-dependent walk. We derive explicit expressions for all eigenvalues and their multiplicities. Afterwards, we apply the obtained eigenvalues to determine the eigentime identity, i.e. the sum of reciprocals of each nonzero eigenvalues of normalized Laplacian matrix for the weighted Koch networks. The highlights of this paper are computational methods as follows. Firstly, we obtain two factors from factorization of the characteristic equation of symmetric transition matrix by means of the operation of the block matrix. From the first factor, we can see that the symmetric transition matrix has at least [Formula: see text] eigenvalues of [Formula: see text]. Then we use the definition of eigenvalues and eigenvectors to calculate the other eigenvalues.

Factor Analysis of Sex-Typed Items from the Bem Sex-Role Inventory: A Replication

1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 517-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Collins ◽  
Carrie Wherry Waters ◽  
L. K. Waters
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Bem Sex Role Inventory ◽  
Female College ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Affective Orientation

Based on the responses of 118 male and 79 female college students, a factor analysis of the 40 sex-typed items from the Bem Sex-role Inventory and sex of respondent yielded four factors which were almost identical to those reported by Waters, Waters, and Pincus (1977). One of the factors essentially represented the gender of the respondent. A second factor representing an expressive, affective orientation was defined by feminine sex-typed items. The other two factors were primarily defined by masculine sex-typed items. One stressed independence, self-sufficiency, and individuality while the other stressed leadership, aggressiveness, and forcefulness. These latter factors were interpreted in terms of an “agentic” orientation (Bakan, 1966) and an “instrumental” orientation (Parsons & Bales, 1955).

What Is Death?

2021 ◽  
pp. 223-234
Author(s):  
Mackenzie Graham
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Medical Procedures ◽  
Human History ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Definition Of Death ◽  
Vital Functions ◽  
Metaphysical Question ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Traditional Understanding ◽  
Human Death

This chapter discusses how the line between life and death has been blurred by advances in science and technology. For much of human history, determining death was a straightforward process. When illness or injury caused the irreversible loss of heart, lung, or brain function, their mutual interdependence meant that the other vital functions would inevitably cease within a matter of minutes. A physician could declare a patient dead simply by showing the absence of a heartbeat, breathing, or reaction of the eye to light. The introduction of new medical procedures in the 1950s, including mechanical ventilation and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), meant that a person whose heart had stopped beating, or lungs had stopped breathing, could be kept alive. These patients presented a problem for the traditional understanding of death because they had irreversibly lost some vital functions, but not others. To understand the nature of human death, one must begin by defining the concept: what is it for any living thing to die? Having answered this metaphysical question, one can move to an epistemological one: what is the appropriate standard for judging that something has met the definition of death? Finally, one requires criteria and tests to affirm that the epistemological standard has been met: when can we confidently say that someone is dead?

Factor Analysis of Sex-Typed Items from the Bem Sex-Role Inventory: A Multiple Replication across Time

1986 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 1323-1326 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. K. Waters ◽  
Paula M. Popovich
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Bem Sex Role Inventory ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Multiple Replication

Replications of two factor analyses of the Bern Sex-role Inventory published in the 1970s were conducted for two samples of college students ( Ns = 362 and 267). Four factors, which were almost identical to those of the previous analyses, were obtained in each sample. One of the factors essentially represented the sex of the respondent. A second factor, representing an expressive, affective orientation, contained loadings of about half of the feminine sex-typed items. The masculine sex-typed items split into two factors. One stressed dominance, aggressiveness, and leadership while the other stressed independence, individuality, and self-sufficiency. These latter factors were interpreted in relation to two masculine orientations suggested by Bakan in 1966 and Parsons and Bales in 1955.

Nurses’ Involvement in Patients’ Dying and Death

2015 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Makiko Kondo ◽  
Hiroshi Nagata
Keyword(s):  
Measurement Scale ◽  
Factorial Structure ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Care Of The Dying

This study reports the development of a measurement scale, The Nurses’ Involvement in Patients’ Dying and Death Scale (NIPDYDS), which fully captures the experiences of nurses caring for patients’ dying and death. Potential items were extracted from narrative data gathered systematically and comprehensively from in-depth interviews with nurses engaged in caring for patients’ dying and death. Factor analyses revealed four factors, consisting of 40 total items, with two factors related to the positive aspects of the experience ( Deep involvement in facing dying and death and Increased competence in facing dying and death) and two factors related to the negative aspects of the experience ( Uncertainty and difficulty dealing with dying and death and Accustomed to dying and death). Validity and reliability of the scale were found to be acceptable. The factorial structure of the NIPDYDS was contrasted to Frommelt’s (1991) FATCOD (The Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying Scale), and the usefulness and limitations of the NIPDYDS were discussed.

Exploratory Factor Analysis of Reading, Spelling, and Math Errors

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 7-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca O’Brien ◽  
Xingyu Pan ◽  
Troy Courville ◽  
Melissa A. Bray ◽  
Kristina Breaux ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Nonsense Word ◽  
The Other ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Academic Skill ◽  
Word Decoding ◽  
Exploratory Factor Analyses ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Math Concepts

Norm-referenced error analysis is useful for understanding individual differences in students’ academic skill development and for identifying areas of skill strength and weakness. The purpose of the present study was to identify underlying connections between error categories across five language and math subtests of the Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement–Third Edition (KTEA-3) through exploratory factor analyses (EFAs). The EFA results were supportive of models with two or three factors for each of the five subtests. Significant inter-factor correlations within subtests were identified in all subtests, except between two factors within the Math Concepts and Application (MCA) subtest. There was also consistency in the covariance patterns of some error categories across subtests, particularly within the Nonsense Word Decoding (NWD) and Spelling (SP) subtests. This consistency was supportive of the proposed factor structures. The factor structures yielded by these analyses were used as the bases for the other articles in this special issue.

The Stigma of Dying: Attitudes toward the Terminally Ill

1978 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita J. Epley ◽  
Charles H. McCaghy
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Semantic Differential ◽  
State Of Health ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Old People ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Pearson Correlations

The objective of this study is to explore whether the terminally ill role is conceptualized as disvalued. Using a range of semantic differential adjectives, 233 college students indicated their attitudes toward young and old people who were healthy, ill, or terminally ill. Analysis of mean scores, Pearson correlations between summary scores, and factor analyses of the underlying pattern of response, support the following conclusions. First, within both young and old categories, attitudes toward each state of health category separate into three factors: attitudes toward healthy, ill, and dying persons. Second, within each health category, attitudes separate into two factors, identified as attitudes toward the young, and attitudes toward the old. The negative attitudes toward the dying are indicative of the terminally ill as stigmatized.

MARSH'S SELF-DESCRIPTION QUESTIONNAIRE III (SDQ III): ADAPTATION STUDY WITH PORTUGUESE COLLEGE STUDENTS

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luisa Faria
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Factorial Structure ◽  
Late Adolescents ◽  
Multidimensional Model ◽  
Portuguese Version ◽  
Original Scale

The Self-Description Questionnaire III (SDQ III) is one of a series of Australian self-concept instruments designed to measure self-concept of pre-adolescents (SDQ I), in early to middle adolescents (SDQ II), late adolescents and early adults (SDQ III). It was designed by Marsh (1988) and is based on the Shavelson, Hubner, and Stanton (1976) hierarchical and multidimensional model. This study presents the various steps followed in the adaptation of this Australian self-concept instrument using 691 Portuguese college students from Northern Portugal. In general the internal consistency of the instrument, assessed by Cronbach's alpha, proved to be good and similar to the Australian version, but the factorial structure of the Portuguese version revealed twelve factors instead of the thirteen of the original scale. The presence of the global self-concept dimension in several factors questions its independence from the other dimensions in the Portuguese version.

Immunoferritin localization of intracellular antigens in positively stained frozen sections

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-169
Author(s):  
K. T. Tokuyasu
Keyword(s):  
Surface Tension ◽  
Water Surface ◽  
Thin Layers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Positive Staining ◽  
Frozen Sections ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ultrathin Frozen Sections ◽  
Definition Of

During the past investigations of immunoferritin localization of intracellular antigens in ultrathin frozen sections, we found that the degree of negative staining required to delineate u1trastructural details was often too dense for the recognition of ferritin particles. The quality of positive staining of ultrathin frozen sections, on the other hand, has generally been far inferior to that attainable in conventional plastic embedded sections, particularly in the definition of membranes. As we discussed before, a main cause of this difficulty seemed to be the vulnerability of frozen sections to the damaging effects of air-water surface tension at the time of drying of the sections.Indeed, we found that the quality of positive staining is greatly improved when positively stained frozen sections are protected against the effects of surface tension by embedding them in thin layers of mechanically stable materials at the time of drying (unpublished).

Perceived Realism of Television Medical Dramas and Perceptions About Physicians

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyunyi Cho ◽  
Kari Wilson ◽  
Jounghwa Choi
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Perceived Realism ◽  
Medical Dramas ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Different Dimensions

This study investigated whether and how dimensions of perceived realism of television medical dramas are linked to perceptions of physicians. The three dimensions of perceived realism were considered: plausibility, typicality, and narrative consistency. Data from a survey of college students were examined with confirmatory factor analyses and hierarchical regression analyses. Across the three dramas (ER, Grey’s Anatomy, and House), narrative consistency predicted positive perceptions about physicians. Perceived plausibility and typicality of the medical dramas showed no significant association with perceptions about physicians. These results illustrate the importance of distinguishing different dimensions of perceived realism and the importance of narrative consistency in influencing social beliefs.

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