Adaptation and Validation of Short Test of Music Preference Scale for Students With Music and Non-Music Majors

Music is a universal phenomenon however, despite its unified properties, the taste and preference of music may still vary as a function of ethnicity and culture. So, the present study aimed to adapt and validate the short test of music preference scale for music and non-music Pakistani students. In Phase I, the cultural adaption of the scale was carried out while the content validity index (Lawshe, 1975) was also established. However, in phase II, the Short test of Music Scale (STOMP) was validated, yielding confirmatory factor analysis. For the empirical evaluation, a sample of 561 students, including both 286 music and 275 non-music students of undergraduate level with the age range of 18-26 years were recruited. The psychometric evolution of STOMP turned into excellent validity and reliability estimates for first-order constructs. Moreover, strict measurement invariance was established for STOMP across music and non-music students. The validation of this scale would be a little effort to pave the way for music psychology to make research available to measure the construct indigenously.

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Music Preference Dimensions and Personality Traits Among University Students

Pakistan Journal of Psychological Research ◽

10.33824/pjpr.2021.36.3.20 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 36 (3) ◽

pp. 357-373

Author(s):

Summaira Naz ◽

Anila Kamal ◽

Mussarat Jabeen Khan ◽

Humaira Bibi

Keyword(s):

Personality Traits ◽

Negative Relationship ◽

Positive Association ◽

Openness To Experience ◽

Music Preference ◽

Preference Scale ◽

Short Test ◽

Three Stages ◽

Age Range ◽

The Relationship

The present study explored the relationship between music reference dimensions and personality trait. This study comprised of three stages. In Stage-I, adaptation of Short Test of Music Preference Scale (STOMP; Rentfrow & Gosling, 2003) was done. In Stage-II the psychometric properties of adapted STOMP Scale and NEO-PI-R (Costa & McCrea, 1992) were determined on a sample of 60 students (20-25 years). Stage-III involved measuring the relationship between music preference dimensions and personality traits on sample of 250 students age range of 20-25 years. Results revealed that extraversion, openness to experience, and agreeableness showed positive association with intense and rebellious music, upbeat and conventional music, and reflective and complex music. Whereas extraversion and openness to experience was negatively associated with energetic and rhythmic music. Additionally, neuroticism was negatively related with reflective and complex music, and agreeableness has negative relation with intense and rebellious music. Conscientiousness has negative relationship with reflective and complex, intense and rebellious, and upbeat and conventional; while exhibited positive relationship with energetic and rhythmic music. Future implications of the study were also discussed.

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Determination of Spreading Motive Levels of Elite Hearing-impaired Sportsmen

SPORT AND SOCIETY ◽

10.36836/uaic/fefs/10.34 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 39-55

Author(s):

Osman Kusan ◽

Hasan Erdem Mumcu ◽

Abdulkerim Çeviker ◽

Ömer Zambak ◽

Onur Öztürk

Keyword(s):

Educational Status ◽

Hearing Impaired ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Male Athletes ◽

Internal Motivation ◽

National Team ◽

Older Athletes ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Level Of Significance ◽

Age Range

This study was conducted to investigate the sub-scales of sports instructions of elite athletes with hearing impairment or hearing loss due to different reasons. A total of 173 hearing-impaired athletes constituted of 54 female and 119 male athletes who are active national team athletes in the age range of 15-25 years. The study was conducted based on Self Determination Theory of Deci and Ryan [9] and on the developed Sports Motivation Scale, Pelletier et al. [24] Kazak [18] applied the validity and reliability of the scale for Turkish athletes. Accordingly, since the p_values calculated for the inner motivation sub-scale and its sub-scales are less than the value of α = .05 which is taken as the level of significance, there is a statistically significant difference in the average scores of the hearing-impaired athletes in their internal motivations and sub-scales. According to gender and educational status, there was no difference in the motivation of the hearing-impaired athletes. According to the age variable, it was seen that older athletes had more external connections. Considering the general motivation scores, the athletes in tennis and swimming were less motivated than others. Elite hearing-impaired athletes are affected by both internal and external impulses. However, internal motivation scores are higher than the external. Internal motivation scores are seen as the lowest in the branch swimming area.

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A Descriptive study to assess the level of knowledge regarding Menopause among rural women of age group 45-55 years at Kot Bhalwal, Jammu

International Journal of Advances in Nursing Management ◽

10.52711/2454-2652.2021.00070 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 315-316

Author(s):

Deva Pon Pushpam. I.

Keyword(s):

Rural Women ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Descriptive Study ◽

Demographic Variables ◽

Average Level ◽

Western World ◽

Age Group ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Level Of Knowledge ◽

Age Range

One of the most important stage in women`s life is menopause. The word menopause simply refers to the last menstrual period which is defined by not having had a period in 12 months. The average age of menopause in western world is 51 years while as in India it is 47.5 years and the normal age range for the occurrence of menopause is somewhat between the age of 45 and 55 years. A descriptive study was conducted to assess the level of knowledge regarding menopause among rural women of age group 45-55 years at Kot Bhalwal, Jammu. The objectives were to assess the level of knowledge regarding menopause among rural women of age group 45-55 years at Kot Bhalwal, Jammu and to associate the level of knowledge regarding menopause with their selected socio demographic variables. Quantitative approach, descriptive research design was used. 100 women of 45–55 years age who fulfil the inclusion and exclusion criteria were selected using purposive sampling technique. A self-structured questionnaire was developed for the study. The tool was tested for content validity and reliability prior to the study. The collected data was tabulated, analysed and interpreted by using descriptive and inferential statistics and findings showed that majority of the sample 97(97%) had below average level of knowledge, 3(3%) had average level of knowledge and 0(0%) had above average level of knowledge and there was no significant association between the selected socio-demographic variables and the level of knowledge.

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Insulin initiative attitudes of type 2 diabetes individuals Turkish validity and reliability study

Progress in Health Sciences ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0014.9283 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 75-82

Author(s):

İlayda Oylum Guleryuz ◽

Figen Okçın

Keyword(s):

Type 2 Diabetes ◽

Factor Analysis ◽

Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽

Insulin Therapy ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Cronbach Alpha ◽

Confirmatory Factor ◽

Age Range

Purpose: A study was conducted to investigate the Turkish Validity and Reliability of the Insulin Initiation Attitudes Scale of individuals with Type 2 diabetes. Materials and methods: This methodologically planned study was conducted with 128 Type 2 diabetes mellitus patients who met the sampling criteria. Data collected using a personal information form to identify individuals diagnosed with diabetes and CH-ASIQ, which assessed their attitudes towards diabetes, and the form Insulin Therapy Attitude Scale parallel as a parallel form. For the statistical analysis of the data, Construct Validity, Exploratory Factor Analysis, and Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin test, Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Pearson, Gutmann, Split Half, Spearman, Cronbach Alpha coefficient methods were used. Results: It was statistically significant; it is seen that 14.1% of the participants were in the 41-50 age range, 37.5% were in the 51-60 age range, and 48.8% were 61 and over. According to Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin test, the result was found to be 0.626. According to the results of factor analysis, 4 factors have emerged which have Eigenvalues above 1 and explain 69.48% of the total variance. According to Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Structural Equation Modeling Results of the scale were found to be p=0.000. According to Cronbach Alpha result 0.756. Conclusion: There was a relationship between attitudes to having information about the treatment of diabetics and attitude, and there was the relationship between them. Effects of fear, pain on these findings were observed. The importance of education for a positive attitude was determined. The importance of patients' attitudes towards insulin therapy should be emphasized for adaptation to the disease.

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Skala TAI-G Untuk Kecemasan Menghadapi Ujian Pada Siswa Sekolah Menengah Atas

Jurnal VARIDIKA ◽

10.23917/varidika.v32i1.11155 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

pp. 53-60

Author(s):

Hasnaa' Zahuna Nayu

Keyword(s):

High Risk ◽

Random Sampling ◽

Simple Random Sampling ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Quantitative Approach ◽

Sampling Techniques ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Alpha Reliability ◽

Age Range ◽

Total Item

Anxiety facing exams refers to the student's tendency to understand evaluativ situations where their performance will be assessed, such as high-risk exams, as they are very threatening. The threat here is their self-esteem, fear will be judged negatively by teachers, friends, or parents. The purpose of this research is to seek the validity and reliability of the TAI-G scale. This research uses a quantitative approach. The number of samples of this study was 101 SMA/SMK students in Magelang with an age range of 15-17 years. Sampling in this study used simple random sampling techniques. The results of the analysis show 21 items declared valid with a correlation of item-Total 0.25, 1 invalid item with a total-item correlation of 0.25, and an alpha reliability of 0.907.

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Individual Prediction Reliability Estimates in Classification and Regression

Intelligent Data Analysis for Real-Life Applications ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-1806-0.ch003 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 35-56

Author(s):

Darko Pevec ◽

Zoran Bosnic ◽

Igor Kononenko

Keyword(s):

Empirical Evaluation ◽

Cancer Recurrence ◽

Machine Learning Algorithms ◽

Reliability Estimation ◽

Local Error ◽

Research Areas ◽

Reliability Estimates ◽

Benchmark Datasets ◽

Classification And Regression ◽

Prediction Reliability

Current machine learning algorithms perform well in many problem domains, but in risk-sensitive decision making – for example, in medicine and finance – experts do not rely on common evaluation methods that provide overall assessments of models because such techniques do not provide any information about single predictions. This chapter summarizes the research areas that have motivated the development of various approaches to individual prediction reliability. Based on these motivations, the authors describe six approaches to reliability estimation: inverse transduction, local sensitivity analysis, bagging variance, local cross-validation, local error modelling, and density-based estimation. Empirical evaluation of the benchmark datasets provides promising results, especially for use with decision and regression trees. The testing results also reveal that the reliability estimators exhibit different performance levels when used with different models and in different domains. The authors show the usefulness of individual prediction reliability estimates in attempts to predict breast cancer recurrence. In this context, estimating prediction reliability for individual predictions is of crucial importance for physicians seeking to validate predictions derived using classification and regression models.

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Validity and reliability of the Korean version of self-care of heart failure index

Journal of Nursing Education and Practice ◽

10.5430/jnep.v8n10p96 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (10) ◽

pp. 96 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Jin Shil Kim ◽

Minjeong An ◽

Hyojeong Seo ◽

Seon Young Hwang ◽

Jae Lan Shim

Keyword(s):

Heart Failure ◽

Care Management ◽

Self Care ◽

Psychometric Testing ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Failure Index ◽

Korean Version ◽

Reliability Estimates ◽

Patients With Heart Failure ◽

Therapeutic Recommendations

Purpose: Self-care and associated decisions for therapeutic recommendations have been a focus of attention recently in Korea. The purpose of this study was to address the dimensionality and reliability of a Korean version of Self-care of Heart Failure Index (SCHFI v.6.2), a measure of self-care of patients with heart failure within a clinical context.Methods: The study sample completed 120 surveys that consisted of demographic variables and the SCHFI v.6.2, which was created to measure self-care maintenance, self-care management, and self-care confidence in HF patients. Confirmatory factor analysis using Mplus verified a robust structural fit of the three dimensionality for each subscale.Results: Self-care maintenance, CFI = .92, TLI = .88, SRMR = .06, RMSEA = .07; self-care management, CFI = .93, TLI = .78, SRMR = .05, RMSEA = .24; self-care confidence, CFI = .95, TLI = .92, SRMR = .05, RMSEA = .13. Multidimensionality yielded the self-care maintenance scale having 4-factor structures, while each self-care management and confidence scale had a unidimensionality. Reliability estimates using methods compatible with each scale’s dimensionality were adequate to high, ranging from .71 to .96.Conclusions: Psychometric testing of the SCHFI demonstrates a sound model fit, with desirable reliability estimates given each scale dimensionality, using Cronbach’s alpha coefficient and alternative options.

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Validity and Reliability of an Expanded Vegetable Questionnaire Among Elementary School Children

Current Developments in Nutrition ◽

10.1093/cdn/nzz080 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (8) ◽

Author(s):

M J Landry ◽

N Ranjit ◽

D M Hoelscher ◽

F M Asigbee ◽

S Vandyousefi ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Vegetable Intake ◽

Weighted Kappa ◽

Fifth Grade ◽

Kappa Statistics ◽

Percentage Agreement ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Reliable Measure ◽

Dietary Recall ◽

Fifth Grade Students ◽

Reliability Estimates

ABSTRACT Background The purpose of this study was to expand the School Physical Activity and Nutrition questionnaire to include a greater variety of vegetables and to evaluate the relative validity and reliability of these revised items. Objectives This study utilized 2 convenience samples of third to fifth graders for an analysis: validity (n = 70) and reliability (n = 76). Validity was assessed by comparing questionnaire items with vegetable intake reported from a 24-hour dietary recall covering the same reference period. Reliability estimates were assessed via same-day test-retest. Results Agreement correlations ranged from 0.35 to 0.71. Kappa statistics varied from 0.16 to 0.66. Percentage agreements ranged from 57% to 87%. Test-retest Spearman coefficients were greater than 0.50 for 6 items, weighted Kappa values were greater than 0.40 for all 7 items, and percentage agreement exceeded 75% for 5 items. Conclusions Results suggest that the questionnaire is a valid and reliable measure of the previous day's vegetable intake in third- to fifth-grade students. This trial was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov as NCT02668744.

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Aligning English Language Testing With Curriculum

PROFILE Issues in Teachers Professional Development ◽

10.15446/profile.v18n2.53302 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 63 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Marcela Palacio ◽

Sandra Gaviria ◽

James Dean Brown

Keyword(s):

English Language ◽

Classroom Practices ◽

Item Analysis ◽

Descriptive Statistics ◽

Test Design ◽

Teaching Philosophy ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Testing Program ◽

Reliability Estimates

<p>Frustrations with traditional testing led a group of teachers at the English for adults program at Universidad EAFIT (Colombia) to design tests aligned with the institutional teaching philosophy and classroom practices. This article reports on a study of an item-by-item evaluation of a series of English exams for validity and reliability in an effort to guarantee the quality of the process of test design. The study included descriptive statistics, item analysis, correlational analyses, reliability estimates, and validity analyses. The results show that the new tests are an excellent addition to the program and an improvement over traditional tests. Implications are discussed and recommendations given for the development of any institutional testing program.</p>

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