scholarly journals The Bifactor Model Fits Better Than the Higher-Order Model in More Than 90% of Comparisons for Mental Abilities Test Batteries

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Higher Order ◽  
Bifactor Model ◽  
Order Model ◽  
Mental Abilities ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Model Fits

scholarly journals “Test Your Spirituality in One Minute or Less” Structural Validity of the Multidimensional Inventory for Religious/Spiritual Well-Being Short Version (MI-RSWB 12)

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Fuchshuber ◽  
Human F. Unterrainer
Keyword(s):  
Lower Order ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Bifactor Model ◽  
Short Version ◽  
Single Factor ◽  
Order Model ◽  
Structural Validity ◽  
Spiritual Well Being

Background: The Multidimensional Inventory for Religious/Spiritual Well-Being (MI-RSWB 48) was developed in order to address a religious/spiritual dimension as being an important part of psychological well-being. In the meantime, the instrument has been successfully applied in numerous studies. Subsequently, a short version, the MI-RSWB 12 was constructed, especially for the use in clinical assessment. Here it is intended to contribute to the further development of the MI-RSWB 12 by investigating its structural validity through structural equation modeling.Materials and Methods: A total sample of 1,097 German-speaking adults (744 females; 67.8%; Age range: 18–69 years) from the normal population filled in the MI-RSWB 12 via an online-survey. In line with theoretical assumptions 5 different factor structure models for the MI-RSWB 12 were tested: (1) a single-factor model, (2) a model with four correlated RSWB dimensions, (3) a single higher-order model with four lower order factors, (4) a two higher-order model with four lower order factors, (5) a bifactor model, which includes four specific RSWB dimensions.Results: The single-factor model provided the poorest model fit, with no indices falling within the acceptable range. The four-factor, two higher-order factors and the bifactor models showed overall acceptable fit indices. With regard to the Akaike information criterion (AIC), the four-factor model demonstrated superiority compared to both the two higher-order factor model and the bifactor model, which in turn showed did not differ from each other.Conclusion: Four different MI-RSWB 12 sub-scales should be calculated in future studies, while a general factor and two higher order factors are statistically valid as well. Further applications of the MI-RSWB 12, especially in the clinical patient groups, are encouraged.

Testing a Higher-Order Model of Psychological Resilience in Recruits

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald R. McCreary ◽  
Jennifer E. C. Lee ◽  
Kerry A. Sudom
Keyword(s):  
Higher Order ◽  
Psychological Resilience ◽  
Order Model

Development of a higher-order model for a roll simulator

2014 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Scott B. Zagorski ◽  
Dennis A. Guenther ◽  
Gary J. Heydinger
Keyword(s):  
Higher Order ◽  
Order Model

Automata theory and higher-order model-checking

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Walukiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Model Checking ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Automata Theory ◽  
Order Model

scholarly journals Measurement invariance of the distress tolerance scale among university students with and without a history of non-suicidal self-injury

PeerJ ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. e10915
Author(s):  
Ashley Slabbert ◽  
Penelope Hasking ◽  
Danyelle Greene ◽  
Mark Boyes
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Measurement Invariance ◽  
Lower Order ◽  
Distress Tolerance ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Order Model ◽  
Self Injury ◽  
History Of ◽  
Order Four

Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is the intentional damage to one’s body tissue in the absence of suicidal intent. NSSI primarily serves an emotion regulation function, with individuals engaging in self-injury to escape intense or unwanted emotion. Low distress tolerance has been identified as a mechanism that underlies self-injury, and is commonly assessed using the self-report Distress Tolerance Scale. There are mixed findings regarding the factor structure of the Distress Tolerance Scale, with some researchers utilising a higher-order distress tolerance score (derived from the scores on the four lower-order subscales) and other researchers using the four subscales as unique predictors of psychological outcomes. Neither of these factor structures have been assessed among individuals with a history of self-injury. Of note, an inability to tolerate distress (thought to underlie NSSI) may limit an individual’s capacity to accurately observe and report specific thoughts and emotions experienced in a state of heightened distress, which may impact the validity of scores on the Distress Tolerance Scale. Therefore, measurement invariance should be established before attributing NSSI-related differences on the scale to true differences in distress tolerance. We compared the Distress Tolerance Scale higher-order model with the lower-order four factor model among university students with and without a history of NSSI. Our results indicated that the lower-order four factor model was a significantly better fit to the data than the higher-order model. We then tested the measurement invariance of this lower-order factor model among individuals with and without a history of NSSI, and established configural and full metric invariance, followed by partial scalar and full residual error invariance. These results suggest the four subscales of the Distress Tolerance Scale can be used to confidently discern NSSI-related differences in distress tolerance.

Relating renormalizability of D-dimensional higher-order electromagnetic and gravitational models to the classical potential at the origin

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (08) ◽  
pp. 1750048 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Accioly ◽  
Gilson Correia ◽  
Gustavo P. de Brito ◽  
José de Almeida ◽  
Wallace Herdy
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Order ◽  
Massive Gravity ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Sixth Order ◽  
Gravity Models ◽  
Local Models ◽  
Order Model ◽  
Functional Generator ◽  
Classical Potential ◽  
Real Poles

Simple prescriptions for computing the D-dimensional classical potential related to electromagnetic and gravitational models, based on the functional generator, are built out. These recipes are employed afterward as a support for probing the premise that renormalizable higher-order systems have a finite classical potential at the origin. It is also shown that the opposite of the conjecture above is not true. In other words, if a higher-order model is renormalizable, it is necessarily endowed with a finite classical potential at the origin, but the reverse of this statement is untrue. The systems used to check the conjecture were D-dimensional fourth-order Lee–Wick electrodynamics, and the D-dimensional fourth- and sixth-order gravity models. A special attention is devoted to New Massive Gravity (NMG) since it was the analysis of this model that inspired our surmise. In particular, we made use of our premise to resolve trivially the issue of the renormalizability of NMG, which was initially considered to be renormalizable, but it was shown some years later to be non-renormalizable. We remark that our analysis is restricted to local models in which the propagator has simple and real poles.

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