Sentences with phrase «whether scale items»

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The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

It asked whether the researchers had obtained a license for a copyrighted questionnaire, called the Eight - Item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS - 8), that they'd used in the study.

You can take our quiz, adapted with permission from Cheek's ten - item scale, to see whether or not you are a covert narcissist.

Read labels, consider scaling back on coffee and soda, and clarify with your server whether or not items on the menu have MSG in them.

The critical question, given that neither ability nor item difficulty can be measured directly, is whether the procedures of inference are powerful enough to put the resulting ratings of ability and difficulty on equal - unit scales.

For each teacher, the raters examined each item on each scale separately, providing a judgment about whether there were many, some, or few instances of that attribute in the data set (or if there were data, they coded the item as could not determine.

Three additional items asked students to rate the electronic portfolio assignment on a 10 - point scale, and the final item asked whether students thought the electronic portfolio assignment had been worth the time spent.

Studies need to employ multi-group confirmatory factor analyses and differential item functioning to test whether measurement models are equivalent across subgroups (e.g., gender) and whether individual items or scales are biased against certain subgroups.

The reliability analysis and factor analysis that follow, will provide us further information regarding whether this item poses a threat to the psychometric properties of the scale or not.

To assess physical aggression, we selected items from rating scales that were used in longitudinal studies with older children.1 A number of these longitudinal studies have shown that 3 items were sufficient to assess reliably physical aggression in children.1, 46 Mothers were asked to indicate whether the child never (0), sometimes (1), or often (2) hits, bites, kicks; fights; and bullies others (scores on this 3 - item scale may range from 0 to 6).

Strains related to living conditions were measured at T1 by a three item scale pertaining to whether the mothers experienced strains related to work (unemployment, uncertain work, difficult work relations), housing (maintenance, rental agreement etc.), and partners» health problems (mental or somatic).

Both used a scale with 4 items, which assessed the extent to which the participants regarded their relationship with the therapist as being pleasant and personal, whether they perceived the relationship as growing during the treatment, and whether they missed face - to - face contact.