Sentences with phrase «validity studies related»

Not exact matches

Having spent several years in the study of Whitehead's thought in seminary and later in graduate philosophy seminars, I had finally worked out a position on the validity of Hartshorne's ontological argument that related that argument back to the more empirical, experiential, and descriptive theism of Whitehead.

«Reproducibility, Power and Validity of Visual Analogue Scales in Assessment of Appetite Sensations in Single Test Meal Studies,» International Journal of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders, 24 (1), 38 - 48.

With that background, I'll take you quickly through my ratings of the internal and external validity of the studies that have been most frequently cited in the debate on the Obama administration's proposal for Preschool for All and related efforts.

Using a predictive validity study to examine the survey results as they relate to student achievement on standardized assessments, McREL researchers found that school climate was the greatest predictor of Grade 5 achievement in literacy.

The tests of content validity reported above confirmed that AQoL - 8D is more closely related to psychosocial health and SWB than the five other MAU instruments in the study.

Its face validity does not appear to be something related to indecisiveness but since Turner et al. (1992) review, studies have provided empirical support of commonalities between the cognitive phenomena of obsession and worry.

No significant interaction of intervention condition (control vs full) with the attrition variable was found for effects on related fifth - grade measures, reinforcing the internal validity of the study with respect to all comparisons of the full intervention and control groups.

Many of the scales demonstrated weak psychometrics in at least one of the following ways: (a) lack of psychometric data [i.e., reliability and / or validity; e.g., HFQ, MASC, PBS, Social Adjustment Scale - Self - Report (SAS - SR) and all perceived self - esteem and self - concept scales], (b) items that fall on more than one subscale (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version), (c) low alpha coefficients (e.g., below.60) for some subscales, which calls into question the utility of using these subscales in research and clinical work (e.g., HFQ, MMPI - A, CBCL - 1991 version, BASC, PSPCSAYC), (d) high correlations between subscales (e.g., PANAS - C), (e) lack of clarity regarding clinically - relevant cut - off scores, yielding high false positive and false negative rates (e.g., CES - D, CDI) and an inability to distinguish between minor (i.e., subclinical) and major (i.e., clinical) «cases» of a disorder (e.g., depression; CDI, BDI), (f) lack of correspondence between items and DSM criteria (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version, CDI, BDI, CES - D, (g) a factor structure that lacks clarity across studies (e.g., PSPCSAYC, CASI; although the factor structure is often difficult to assess in studies of pediatric populations, given the small sample sizes), (h) low inter-rater reliability for interview and observational methods (e.g., CGAS), (i) low correlations between respondents such as child, parent, teacher [e.g., BASC, PSPCSAYC, CSI, FSSC - R, SCARED, Connors Ratings Scales - Revised (CRS - R)-RSB-, (j) the inclusion of somatic or physical symptom items on mental health subscales (e.g., CBCL), which is a problem when conducting studies of children with pediatric physical conditions because physical symptoms may be a feature of the condition rather than an indicator of a mental health problem, (k) high correlations with measures of social desirability, which is particularly problematic for the self - related rating scales and for child - report scales more generally, and (l) content validity problems (e.g., the RCMAS is a measure of anxiety, but contains items that tap mood, attention, peer interactions, and impulsivity).

Study 2 examined correlation between the PNS - J and other related variables (big - five personality traits and need for cognition) to show convergent and discriminant evidence of validity of the PNS - J, and evaluated test - retest reliability of the scale.

First, Study 2 examined correlations between the PNS - J and other related variables to provide convergent and discriminant evidence of validity of the PNS - J.

Abstract: This study examined the construct validity of the newly developed instrument A Dialogue About Ability Related To Work (DOA).

The aim of the current study was to test first the validity of the social learning model, in which children's externalizing behavior (EB) is considered to be related to problematic parenting, and second, whether and to what extent mothers and fathers moderate the influence of each other's parenting on children's EB.

The purpose of this study was to test the factorial validity of the job - related affective well - being scale — the IWP Multi-Affect Indicator.

In study 3, we tested the internal consistency reliability, split - half reliability and criterion - related validity of the three subscales.

TY - JOUR AU - 김소영 AU - Jinsook Kim TI - Development of Emotion Regulation Scale for Children T2 - Korea Journal of Counseling PY - 2011 VL - 12 IS - 4 PB - Korean Counseling Association (KCA) SP - 1097 - 1108 SN - 1598 - 2068 AB - The purpose of this study was to develop an Emotional Regulation Scale for Children in order to measure the degree of emotional regulation which is deemed to be related to main psychological causes of maladjustment behaviour (childhood's depression, aggression, etc.) and to verify the validity and reliability of the scale.

Previous studies confirmed that the control of diabetes is related to family functioning, but the validity of the tools used to assess family functioning in these studies is questionable.

The purpose of this study was to develop an Emotional Regulation Scale for Children in order to measure the degree of emotional regulation which is deemed to be related to main psychological causes of maladjustment behaviour (childhood's depression, aggression, etc.) and to verify the validity and reliability of the scale.

The criterion validity and clinical relevance of the QPCCE were investigated in Study 3 via the relations between parental emotion - related conversations and their children's social and emotional competences.

The convergent validity of the QPCCE was tested in Study 2 using an observational design assessing parental emotion - related conversations during a Picture - book Task.

Besides finding that reactive and suspicious jealousy could be delineated, the results of two studies found evidence for discriminant validity and that greater reactive jealousy was related to greater relationship dependency, greater trust, and lower chronic jealousy.

In Study 2, we examined the convergent validity of the Italian version of the DAPCS analyzing the associations between the two domains of psychological control and well - established measures related to them such as strictness / supervision, overprotection, non dependency on parents, and family functioning.