scholarly journals Convergent Validity of a Quick Online Self-Administered Measure of Verbal IQ for Psychology Researchers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Logos ◽  
neil brewer ◽  
Robyn L. Young
Keyword(s):  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
The Self ◽  
Verbal Intelligence ◽  
Statistical Control ◽  
Efficient Manner ◽  
Verbal Iq ◽  
Iq Test ◽  
Online Tests

Verbal intelligence—which relates to memory performance, abstract reasoning, and g—is often important to account for within psychological research. However, the time demands and financial costs associated with researcher-administered testing using valid measures of intelligence limit researchers’ ability to include such measures within their research. To address this issue, we examined the convergent validity of two tests of verbal intelligence that could be self-administered online with the well-validated Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence–Second Edition (WASI-II). An undergraduate sample of participants (N = 104) completed the Self-Administered Verbal IQ Test (SA-VIQT), with a subsection (n = 64) completing the Self-Administered Full Scale IQ Test (SA-FSIQT), both made available online by Open-Source Psychometrics Project. Additionally, all participants were administered the Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI) of WASI-II by a trained researcher, with a subsection administered the full WASI-II including the Perceptual Reasoning Index (PRI) (n = 72). Both online tests demonstrated convergent validity with the WASI-II. While the online tests may only deliver a crude indicator of verbal intelligence, they provide researchers the opportunity for statistical control or screening of participants across large samples in an efficient manner not possible when using researcher-administered testing methods.

Design and Validation of the Brief Self Online Scale (SO-8) in Early Adolescence: An Exploratory Study

2020 ◽  
pp. 027243162097853
Author(s):  
J. Ortega-Barón ◽  
J. M. Machimbarrena ◽  
I. Montiel ◽  
S. Buelga ◽  
A. Basterra-González ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Problematic Internet Use ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Correlated Factors ◽  
Age Range

For the Z-Generation, the Internet has become a very important experimentation laboratory for the discovery and validation of their identity. Despite the importance of the process of building the self in the adolescent, there are hardly any validated instruments that measure the self online. The aim of this research was to design and validate the Brief Self Online Scale (SO-8). A total of 843 students (384 boys, 45.6%), with an age range of 10 to 14 years participated. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) confirmed the hypothesized model of two correlated factors (Online Self-Perception and Online Idealized Projection), previously obtained through exploratory factor analysis (EFA). The reliability coefficients of Self Online dimensions were adequate. Indicators of convergent validity were obtained, finding significant correlations with self-concept, problematic Internet use, and online emotional intelligence. The SO-8 has adequate psychometric properties to be considered a reliable and valid tool to measure the construct of the Self Online in adolescents.

Convergent Validity of the Self-Determination Inventory: Student Report

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karrie A. Shogren ◽  
Leslie A. Shaw ◽  
Sheida K. Raley
Keyword(s):  
Convergent Validity ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Determination

Conceptual Disruption

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara I. McClelland
Keyword(s):  
Survey Research ◽  
Sexual Satisfaction ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Report Data ◽  
Self Report Data ◽  
Cantril’S Ladder

In research using self-report measures, there is little attention paid to how participants interpret concepts; instead, researchers often assume definitions are shared, universal, or easily understood. I discuss the self-anchored ladder, adapted from Cantril’s ladder, which is a procedure that simultaneously collects a participant’s self-reported rating and their interpretation of that rating. Drawing from a study about sexual satisfaction that included a self-anchored ladder, four analyses are presented and discussed in relation to one another: (1) comparisons of sexual satisfaction scores, (2) variations of structures participants applied to the ladder, (3) frequency of terms used to describe sexual satisfaction, and (4) thematic analysis of “best” and “worst” sexual satisfaction. These analytic strategies offer researchers a model for how to incorporate self-anchored ladder items into research designs as a means to draw out layers of meaning in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods data. I argue that the ladder invites the potential for conceptual disruption by prioritizing skepticism in survey research and bringing greater attention to how social locations, histories, economic structures, and other factors shape self-report data. I also address issues related to the multiple epistemological positions that the ladder demands. Finally, I argue for the centrality of epistemological self-reflexivity in critical feminist psychological research. Additional online materials for this article are available on PWQ’s website at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/0361684317725985

The Development of a Measure to Assess Social Reactions to Self-Injury Disclosure

Assessment ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 225-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooke A. Ammerman ◽  
Michael S. McCloskey
Keyword(s):  
Factor Structure ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Reactions ◽  
Self Injury ◽  
Negative Social Reactions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Three Factor ◽  
Nonsuicidal Self Injury

Only approximately half of individuals engaging in nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) ever disclose their behavior. Yet there is a dearth of research aimed at understanding NSSI disclosure and the outcomes of choosing to disclose, such as social reactions to NSSI disclosure. The current study aimed to develop and validate a measure of perceived social reactions to the disclosure of NSSI, the Self-Injury Social Reactions Questionnaire (SI-SRQ). Results supported a three-factor structure of the SI-SRQ assessing positive (tangible aid, emotional support) and negative social reactions in undergraduate ( n = 269), community ( n = 217), and recent NSSI ( n = 129) samples. The internal consistencies of the resultant subscales, in addition to the convergent validity, were also supported. The development of the SI-SRQ provides an avenue to enhance our knowledge of the relationship between social reactions to NSSI disclosure and disclosure outcomes, which may help inform educational efforts about responding to NSSI disclosures more effectively.

Ten-Year Stability of Verbal and Nonverbal IQ Scores

1975 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth D. Hopkins ◽  
Glenn H. Bracht
Keyword(s):  
Intelligence Tests ◽  
Verbal Intelligence ◽  
Popular Opinion ◽  
Verbal Iq ◽  
Iq Scores

Intelligence tests continue to be the most widely used measures of cognitive aptitudes. Performance on such measures is usually expressed as an IQ score. Popular opinion to the contrary, relatively little is known about the long term measuring of IQ scores from group verbal and non-verbal intelligence tests, especially the latter. This study shows that, below ten years of age, stability in IQ scores from group verbal tests is considerably below that for the Stanford-Binet. Non-verbal IQ scores were found to have substantially less stability than Verbal IQs.

scholarly journals Losing Hurts: The Happiness Impact of Partisan Electoral Loss

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lamar Pierce ◽  
Todd Rogers ◽  
Jason A. Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
Regression Discontinuity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
The Self ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Partisan Identity ◽  
Boston Marathon

AbstractPartisan identity shapes social, mental, economic, and physical life. Using a novel dataset, we study the consequences of partisan identity by examining the immediate impact of electoral loss and victory on happiness and sadness. Employing a quasi-experimental regression discontinuity model we present two primary findings. First, elections strongly affect the immediate happiness/sadness of partisan losers, but minimally impact partisan winners. This effect is consistent with psychological research on the good-bad hedonic asymmetry, but appears to dissipate within a week after the election. Second, the immediate happiness consequences to partisan losers are relatively strong. To illustrate, we show that partisans are affected two times more by their party losing the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election than both respondents with children were to the Newtown shootings and respondents living in Boston were to the Boston Marathon bombings. We discuss implications regarding the centrality of partisan identity to the self and its well-being.

Development of the Self-Efficacy of Balance Scale (SEBS) for Young, Active Individuals

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 352-373
Author(s):  
Carrie S. Baker ◽  
Jennifer M. Medina McKeon ◽  
Ellen L. Usher
Keyword(s):  
Content Validity ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
The Self ◽  
Lower Extremity Injury ◽  
Psychological Risk Factors ◽  
Balance Scale ◽  
Active Population ◽  
The Face ◽  
Psychological Risk

Self-efficacy of balance, a psychological characteristic, may provide information regarding psychological risk factors for lower-extremity injury. Validated instruments to assess self-efficacy of balance do not currently exist. The objective of this study was to determine the face and content validity of the Self-Efficacy of Balance Scale (SEBS) for an adolescent population, as well as content validity, construct and convergent validity of the overall instrument. A series of panelists (n = 11) assessed proposed items for face and content validity for self-efficacy of balance. Construct and convergent validity were assessed with active college individuals (n = 74) and female high school basketball athletes (n = 57). Original items were revised to 21 items. Panelists validated both face and content validity of the SEBS. All items were assessed to have the construct of self-efficacy. Evidence of convergent validity supported the proposed construct of self-efficacy, and was found to be relevant to the physical functioning of a young, active population.

A Reading Level Match Study of Nonword Reading Skills in Poor Readers with Varying IQ

1992 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 318-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca H. Felton ◽  
Frank B. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Reading Skills ◽  
Word Identification ◽  
First Graders ◽  
Reading Level ◽  
Intellectual Ability ◽  
Poor Readers ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Verbal Intelligence ◽  
Verbal Iq ◽  
Nonword Reading

This study evaluated the hypothesis that poor readers are characterized by poor nonword reading skills, but that a specific deficit, as opposed to a developmental lag, in nonword reading will be found only in subjects whose reading is discrepant from intellectual ability. To test this hypothesis, we measured nonword reading skills in 93 (64 male, 29 female) third-grade poor readers and 54 (37 male, 17 female) fifth-grade poor readers (with and without reading/IQ discrepancies) who were matched to 147 (81 male, 66 female) nondisabled first graders on word identification skills. Results showed third- and fifth-grade poor readers to be significantly more impaired than word-identification level match first graders on all measures on nonword reading. These findings were not related to the verbal IQ level within the poor reader groups and, thus, provide strong evidence for a deficit in nonword reading skills that is not explained by verbal intelligence.

scholarly journals Response latency in social psychological research

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian A. Nosek
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Response Latency ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Mental Representations ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Methodological Tool ◽  
Social Psychological Research

With the rise of social cognition, use of response latency as a dependent variable has become common in social psychological research. Response latency has been used by researchers to investigate processes that are not easily testable with other methodologies, such as self-report. Response latency’s usefulness as a methodological tool is notable due to its broad application in social psychology, from research on close relationships and attribution to investigations of the self and attitudes. This paper reviews the breadth of social psychological research that has used response latency to inform about mental representations, cognitive processes, and motivational tendencies.

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