Differential Responding to Positive and Negative Items: The Case of a Negative Item in a Questionnaire for Course and Faculty Evaluation

2001 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 497-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Mohamed Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Evaluation ◽  
Rating Scales ◽  
Faculty Evaluation ◽  
Random Responding ◽  
Self Rating ◽  
Factor Analytic ◽  
Negative Item ◽  
Response Sets ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Positive Item

Previous factor-analytic studies of self-rating scales have yielded a factor on which negatively worded items loaded separately. The present study investigated the existence for such a factor in a questionnaire for course and teacher evaluation which included one negative item. The questionnaire was administered in 1,095 university classes Two factors emerged, an exclusively positive-item factor and another factor on which the single negative item and one positive item loaded It was suggested that both items of Factor 2 were ambiguous and may identify tendencies such as acquiescence, random responding, and response sets.

Childbirth and Posttraumatic Stress Responses

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 259-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eelco Olde ◽  
Rolf J. Kleber ◽  
Onno van der Hart ◽  
Victor J.M. Pop
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Responses ◽  
Rating Scales ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Event Scale ◽  
Self Rating ◽  
The Impact

Childbirth has been identified as a possible traumatic experience, leading to traumatic stress responses and even to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The current study investigated the psychometric properties of the Dutch version of the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) in a group of women who recently gave birth (N = 435). In addition, a comparison was made between the original IES and the IES-R. The scale showed high internal consistency (α = 0.88). Using confirmatory factor analysis no support was found for a three-factor structure of an intrusion, an avoidance, and a hyperarousal factor. Goodness of fit was only reasonable, even after fitting one intrusion item on the hyperarousal scale. The IES-R correlated significantly with scores on depression and anxiety self-rating scales, as well as with scores on a self-rating scale of posttraumatic stress disorder. Although the IES-R can be used for studying posttraumatic stress reactions in women who recently gave birth, the original IES proved to be a better instrument compared to the IES-R. It is concluded that adding the hyperarousal scale to the IES-R did not make the scale stronger.

scholarly journals Analysis of Self-Consciousness Using Self-Rating Scales in Children with Duchenne Progressive Muscular Dystrophy and Asthma

1989 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
Akihiko OGASAWARA ◽  
Kazumi KOHMURA ◽  
Mitsuhiro MIYAZAKI ◽  
Youichi USHIDA ◽  
Shingo YAMAUCHI
Keyword(s):  
Muscular Dystrophy ◽  
Rating Scales ◽  
Progressive Muscular Dystrophy ◽  
Self Rating

scholarly journals Attachment states of mind among internationally adoptive and foster parents

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Lee Raby ◽  
Heather A. Yarger ◽  
Teresa Lind ◽  
R. Chris Fraley ◽  
Esther Leerkes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foster Parents ◽  
Rating Scales ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Adult Attachment Interview ◽  
Low Risk ◽  
States Of Mind ◽  
Protective Services ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Taxometric Analyses

AbstractThe first aim of the current study was to examine the latent structure of attachment states of mind as assessed by the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) among three groups of parents of children at risk for insecure attachments: parents who adopted internationally (N= 147), foster parents (N= 300), and parents living in poverty and involved with Child Protective Services (CPS;N= 284). Confirmatory factor analysis indicated the state of mind rating scales loaded on two factors reflecting adults’ preoccupied and dismissing states of mind. Taxometric analyses indicated the variation in adults’ preoccupied states of mind was more consistent with a dimensional than a categorical model, whereas results for dismissing states of mind were indeterminate. The second aim was to examine the degree to which the attachment states of mind of internationally adoptive and foster parents differ from those of poverty/CPS-referred parents and low-risk parents. After controlling for parental age, sex, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, (a) internationally adoptive parents had lower scores on the dismissing dimension than the sample of community parents described by Haltigan, Leerkes, Supple, and Calkins (2014); (b) foster parents did not differ from community parents on either the dismissing or the preoccupied AAI dimension; and (c) both internationally adoptive and foster parents had lower scores on the preoccupied dimension than poverty/CPS-referred parents. Analyses using the traditional AAI categories provided convergent evidence that (a) internationally adoptive parents were more likely to be classified as having an autonomous state of mind than low-risk North American mothers based on Bakermans-Kranenburg and van IJzendoorn's (2009) meta-analytic estimates, (b) the rates of autonomous states of mind did not differ between foster and low-risk parents, and (c) both internationally adoptive and foster parents were less likely to be classified as having a preoccupied state of mind than poverty/CPS-referred parents.

Assessing the Perception of Pain and Distress of Female Patients Undergoing Routine Urethral Catheterization in Cesarean Delivery

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Taleschian Tabrizi ◽  
Z. Torabi ◽  
P. Bastani ◽  
M. Mokhtarkhani ◽  
N. Madani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cesarean Delivery ◽  
Rating Scales ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Urethral Catheterization ◽  
Common Procedure ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Pain Scales ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Numerical Rating

Urethral catheterization is a common procedure performed commonly before some elective surgeries, often without consideration of the pain and negative perception among women. Owing to patient complaints and the fact that catheterization is not always necessary; a descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out from January to March 2012 at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences hospital. One hundred healthy women who were catheterized before undergoing cesarean delivery were interviewed to assess the perception of pain and distress, determining the association between these two factors. This issue has rarely been investigated in previous studies. This study also aimed to evaluate the efficiencies of the Wong-Baker and 0–10 numerical rating scales. The authors results indicate that although the patients did not initially have a good understanding of the pain scales, when they were given additional explanation, a positive correlation between the two scales (p<0.01) was found. Their study further demonstrates that catheterization is a moderately painful (4.68 of 10) procedure, causing distress (4.67 of 10) and discomfort.

scholarly journals Symmetric Metric Learning with Adaptive Margin for Recommendation

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (04) ◽  
pp. 4634-4641
Author(s):  
Mingming Li ◽  
Shuai Zhang ◽  
Fuqing Zhu ◽  
Wanhui Qian ◽  
Liangjun Zang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Metric Space ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Metric Learning ◽  
Current User ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Negative Item ◽  
Positive Item ◽  
User Centric ◽  
The Impact

Metric learning based methods have attracted extensive interests in recommender systems. Current methods take the user-centric way in metric space to ensure the distance between user and negative item to be larger than that between the current user and positive item by a fixed margin. While they ignore the relations among positive item and negative item. As a result, these two items might be positioned closely, leading to incorrect results. Meanwhile, different users usually have different preferences, the fixed margin used in those methods can not be adaptive to various user biases, and thus decreases the performance as well. To address these two problems, a novel Symmetic Metric Learning with adaptive margin (SML) is proposed. In addition to the current user-centric metric, it symmetically introduces a positive item-centric metric which maintains closer distance from positive items to user, and push the negative items away from the positive items at the same time. Moreover, the dynamically adaptive margins are well trained to mitigate the impact of bias. Experimental results on three public recommendation datasets demonstrate that SML produces a competitive performance compared with several state-of-the-art methods.

Confirmation of Objective Test Factors and Assessment of Their Relation to Questionnaire Factors: A Factor Analysis of 113 Rating, Questionnaire and Objective Test Measurements of Personality

1958 ◽  
Vol 104 (436) ◽  
pp. 608-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan H. Scheier ◽  
Raymond B. Cattell
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Objective Test ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Single Factor ◽  
Basic Strategy ◽  
Self Rating ◽  
Personality Research ◽  
Factor Analytic ◽  
Objective Tests

Cattell's basic strategy in personality research has been first to establish personality factors for each of three major types of measurement, rating (Life-Record), questionnaire (Self-Rating), and objective tests, then to compare factors from one realm with factors from another (7). A factor in any one realm is established in the first place by being replicated. As Cattell says (4, p. 291): “… a functionally unitary trait or process should nevertheless not be considered established by a pattern in a single factor analytic research, but must reappear consistently and persistently in independently rotated studies.”

Self-Rating Scales Do Not Predict Balance in Parkinson Disease

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (Suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 288
Author(s):  
Brian Hoover ◽  
Shinichi Amano ◽  
Srikant Vallabhajosula ◽  
Joe Nocera ◽  
Chris Hass
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson Disease ◽  
Rating Scales ◽  
Self Rating

Nonpsychotic Patients Referred to a Consultation Service

1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-390
Author(s):  
R. Kellner ◽  
J. Robinson ◽  
A. Vogel ◽  
W. W. Winslow ◽  
D. Pathak
Keyword(s):  
Rating Scales ◽  
Parental Death ◽  
Medical Patients ◽  
Consultation Service ◽  
Self Rating

In order to examine characteristics of nondangerous and nonpsychotic patients referred to a consultation service, the authors administered self-rating scales and questionnaires to fifty referred medical patients and nonreferred controls. Recalled abuse in childhood appeared a stronger predictor for referral than some other commonly researched ones such as parental death, divorce or separation in childhood or recent losses. Anxiety, hostility and depression were significantly higher in referred patients, whereas hypochondriacal attitudes did not differ between the two groups. The findings appear to have implications for treatment.

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