Factorial Assessment of Rated Work Performance with Entry Level Psychiatric Aides

1986 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 479-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. K. Distefano ◽  
Margaret W. Pryer
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Components Of Variance ◽  
Record Keeping ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Therapeutic Interaction ◽  
Work Habits ◽  
Factor Ii ◽  
Selection Test

A principal-components factor analysis of a 54-item work-performance rating scale with 173 entry-level psychiatric aides yielded three interpretable factors, Factor I: charting, record-keeping, and basic nursing care, Factor II: general work habits and compliance with rules, and Factor III: therapeutic interaction with patients. Comparisons of factorial and conceptual scoring methods yielded no differences in verbal-selection test/work-performance validities and no race or sex differences using either method. It was noted, however, that the use of factor analysis contributed to the construct validity of the scale and identified the major components of variance.

Verbal Selection Test and Work Performance Validity with Aides from Three Psychiatric Hospitals

1985 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 811-815 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. K. Distefano ◽  
Margaret W. Pryer
Keyword(s):  
Work Performance ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitals ◽  
Performance Validity ◽  
Occupational Groups ◽  
State Hospitals ◽  
Verbal Test ◽  
Selection Test ◽  
Meta Analyses

This study demonstrated the use of meta-analysis within a study to assess validity with samples of psychiatric aides from three state hospitals where the usual method of pooling samples was inappropriate. The mean weighted correlation between the modified Personnel Tests for Industry—Verbal Test and total scores on the work performance rating scale across samples ( N = 173) was .23 (cumulative p = .001), which increased to .47 when corrected for restriction in range and error of criterion measurement. Although the number of samples was small for typical meta-analysis, the obtained validity was consistent with results from large meta-analyses with both similar and varied occupational groups.

Scale for Assessing Mental Patients' Work Performance

1968 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 611-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milton R. Ravensborg
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Concurrent Validity ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Mental Patients ◽  
Underlying Dimension

The M-R Fergus Falls Patient-Employee Rating Scale was constructed to help objectivize ratings of mental patients' work performance. Concurrent validity was established between score-classes and job supervisors' man-to-man rankings of patients. Factor analysis revealed the scale to possess one underlying dimension, called “good worker traits.” Advantages of standardized ratings are discussed.

scholarly journals Metacognitive Rating Scale: A Study Applying a Korean Translation to Individuals with Schizophrenia

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (13) ◽  
pp. 6853
Author(s):  
Mihwa Han ◽  
Kyunghee Lee ◽  
Mijung Kim ◽  
Youngjin Heo ◽  
Hyunseok Choi
Keyword(s):  
Principal Component Analysis ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Exploratory Factor Analysis ◽  
Mental Status ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Anger Expression ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Negative Beliefs ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Metacognitive Beliefs

Metacognition is a higher-level cognition of identifying one’s own mental status, beliefs, and intentions. This research comprised a survey of 184 people with schizophrenia to verify the reliability of the metacognitive rating scale (MCRS) with the revised and supplemented metacognitions questionnaire (MCQ) to measure the dysfunctional metacognitive beliefs of people with schizophrenia by adding the concepts of anger and anxiety. This study analyzed the data using principal component analysis and the varimax method for exploratory factor analysis. To examine the reliability of the extracted factors, Cronbach’s α was used. According to the results, reliability was ensured for five factors: positive beliefs about worry, negative beliefs about uncontrollability and danger of worry, cognitive confidence, need for control, and cognitive self-consciousness. The negative beliefs about uncontrollability and danger of worry and the need for control on anger expression, which were both added in this research, exhibited the highest correlation (r = 0.727). The results suggest that the MCRS is a reliable tool to measure the metacognition of people with schizophrenia.

scholarly journals Scale development and an educational program to reduce the stigma of schizophrenia among community pharmacists: a randomized controlled trial

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomoo Fujii ◽  
Manako Hanya ◽  
Kenta Murotani ◽  
Hiroyuki Kamei
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Controlled Trial ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Educational Program ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Community Pharmacists ◽  
Factor I ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Factor Ii

Abstract Background Stigma associated with mental disorders is rooted among many pharmacists, and represents a major barrier to patient support in community-based psychiatry. We developed an assessment scale that is specifically designed to assess the level of stigma that pharmacists may have toward schizophrenia, and then examined the effects of reducing stigma with an educational program that focuses on communication with patients diagnosed with schizophrenia (PDS) using the newly developed Stigma Scale towards Schizophrenia for Community Pharmacists (SSCP). Methods SSCP was developed by exploratory factor analysis with promax rotation based on responses from 822 randomly selected community pharmacists. Furthermore, a randomized controlled trial was conducted for 115 community pharmacists to clarify the effects of reducing the stigma of schizophrenia using an educational program for them with a focus on communication with PDS. Participants were individually allocated to two groups: educational lecture group (56; only attending a lecture on schizophrenia) or contact-based intervention group (59; communicating with PDS and attending the lecture). The stigma assessment using SSCP was conducted immediately before and after the educational intervention. Results A total of 4 factors and 27 items were extracted from the exploratory factor analysis to comprise the SSCP. Cronbach’s α of SSCP, social distance at professional pharmacy service (factor I), attitudes towards PDS (factor II), self-disclosure (factor III), and social distance in personal (factor IV) were 0.89, 0.88, 0.76, 0.62, and 0.62, respectively. Educational program-related changes of the median (interquartile range) total SSCP score from baseline were − 9.0 (− 16.0 – − 5.0) in the contact-based intervention group and − 3.0 (− 7.0–1.0) in the educational lecture group, reflecting a significant reduction of stigma levels in the contact-based intervention group. On examining the SSCP subscales, scores for factor I and factor II significantly improved. The educational program was more effective for pharmacists aged 20–39 years or with negligible experience of communicating with PDS at work and/or in private life. Conclusions SSCP and the educational program for community pharmacists that focuses on communication with PDS were useful for assessing and reducing, respectively, the stigma attached by these pharmacists to schizophrenia. Trial registration UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN000043189, registered on January 30, 2021), Retrospectively registered.

Factor Analysis of the Frontal Systems Behavior Scale (FrSBe)

Assessment ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie C. Stout ◽  
Rebecca E. Ready ◽  
Janet Grace ◽  
Paul F. Malloy ◽  
Jane S. Paulsen
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Executive Dysfunction ◽  
Behavior Rating Scale ◽  
Neurological Patients ◽  
Frontal Systems ◽  
Behavior Scale ◽  
Behavior Disturbances ◽  
Modest Level

The Frontal Systems Behavior Scale (FrSBe), formerly called the Frontal Lobe Personality Scale (FLOPS), is a brief behavior rating scale with demonstrated validity for the assessment of behavior disturbances associated with damage to the frontal-subcortical brain circuits. The authors report an exploratory principal factor analysis of the FrSBe–Family Version in a sample including 324 neurological patients and research participants, of which about 63% were diagnosed with neurodegenerative diseases (Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's diseases). The three-factor solution accounted for a modest level of variance (41%) and confirmed a factor structure consistent with the three subscales proposed on the theoretical basis of the frontal systems. Most items (83%) from the FrSBe subscales of Apathy, Disinhibition, and Executive Dysfunction loaded saliently on three corresponding factors. The FrSBe factor structure supports its utility for assessing both the severity of the three frontal syndromes in aggregate and separately.

Patterns of Language Behavior in Children with Developmental Language Disorders

1975 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy M. Aram ◽  
James E. Nation
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Language Disorders ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Language Performance ◽  
Developmental Language Disorders ◽  
Factor I ◽  
Factor Ii ◽  
Language Behavior ◽  
Low Performance ◽  
Comprehension Deficit

Tests to measure comprehension, formulation, and repetition of certain phonologic, syntactic, and semantic aspects of language were administered to 47 children who had developmental language disorders. A factor analysis of the resultant scores indicated that three factors were present in the data. These factors are presented as six patterns of language performance, one for high loadings on the factor and one for low loadings. The six patterns are (1) repetition strength (Factor I, high); (2) nonspecific formulation-repetition deficit (Factor I, low); (3) generalized low performance (Factor II, high); (4) phonologic comprehension-formulation-repetition deficit (Factor II, low); (5) comprehension deficit (Factor III, high); and (6) formulation-repetition deficit (Factor III, low). Possible relations among these patterns and nonlinguistic measures (sex, race, age, nonverbal intelligence, socioeconomic status, and status of the peripheral speech mechanism) were investigated. Two of the patterns of language performance were found to be related significantly to age. On Factor II, the younger children tended to get high loadings (generalized low performance) while the older children tended to get low loadings (phonologic comprehension-formulation-repetition deficit).

Development of an Empathy Rating Scale for Young Children

Assessment ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 107319112110386
Author(s):  
Eva R. Kimonis ◽  
Natasha Jain ◽  
Bryan Neo ◽  
Georgette E. Fleming ◽  
Nancy Briggs
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Parent Report ◽  
Personal Distress ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Empathy Scale ◽  
Item Scores ◽  
Amazon's Mechanical Turk

Empathy is critical to young children’s socioemotional development and deficient levels characterize a severe and pervasive type of Conduct Disorder (i.e., with limited prosocial emotions). With the emergence of novel, targeted early interventions to treat this psychopathology, the critical limitations of existing parent-report empathy measures reveal their unsuitability for assessing empathy levels and outcomes in young children. The present study aimed to develop a reliable and comprehensive parent-rated empathy scale for young children. This was accomplished by first generating a large list of empathy items sourced from both preexisting empathy measures and from statements made by parents during a clinical interview about their young child’s empathy. Second, this item set was refined using exploratory factor analysis of item scores from parents of children aged 2 to 8 years (56.6% male), recruited online using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. A five-factor solution provided the best fit to the data: Attention to Others’ Emotions, Personal Distress (i.e., Emotional Contagion/Affective Empathy), Personal Distress–Fictional Characters, Prosocial Behavior, and Sympathy. Total and subscale scores on the new “Measure of Empathy in Early Childhood” (MEEC) were internally consistent. Finally, this five-factor structure was tested using confirmatory factor analysis and model fit was adequate. With further research into the validity of MEEC scores, this new rater-based empathy measure for young children may hold promise for assessing empathy in early childhood and advancing research into the origins of empathy and empathy-related disorders.

Rasch Modeling and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Systemizing Quotient-Revised (SQ-R) Scale

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie Allison ◽  
Simon Baron-Cohen ◽  
Mark H Stone ◽  
Steven J Muncer
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Rasch Model ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Rasch Modeling ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Spectrum Condition ◽  
The Rasch Model

AbstractThis study assessed the dimensionality of the Systemizing Quotient-Revised (SQ-R), a measure of how strong a person's interest is in systems, using two statistical approaches: Rasch modeling and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). Participants included N = 675 with an autism spectrum condition (ASC), N = 1369 family members of people with ASC, and N = 2014 typical controls. Data were applied to the Rasch model (Rating Scale) using WINSTEPS. The data fit the Rasch model quite well lending support to the idea that systemizing could be seen as unidimensional. Reliability estimates were .99 for items and .92 for persons. A CFA parceling approach confirmed that a unidimensional model fit the data. There was, however, differential functioning by sex in some of these items. An abbreviated 44-item version of the scale, consisting of items without differential item functioning by sex was developed. This shorter scale also was tested from a Rasch perspective and confirmed through CFA. All measures showed differences on total scale scores between those participants with and without ASC (d = 0.71, p < .005), and between sexes (d = 0.53, p < .005). We conclude that the SQ-R is an appropriate measure of systemizing which can be measured along a single dimension.

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