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Still comparing apples with oranges? Some thoughts on the principles and practices of measurement invariance testing.
This editorial seeks to encourage European Journal of Psychological Assessment authors to take a critical approach to the use of multi-group confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) for invariance testing. The authors highlight three aspects surrounding the principles and practices of invariance testing via multi-group CFA: First, the application of model fit criteria to compare nested invariance models should always be evaluated considering the complexity of measurement models, the study sample, and the treatment of data. Second, standard invariance testing procedures, including multi-group CFA, have certain limitations. Third,...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - June 11, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Assessment of anticipated emotions in moral transgressions.
This paper describes the reliability and validity of the assessment of anticipated emotions in the context of moral transgressions in a sample of 1,179 children aged 6–13 years (M = 9.1; SD = 1.8, 49.0% girls), with a special interest in the domain and developmental specificity of the instrument. To evaluate the concurrent and predictive validity, we also examined the relation between anticipated emotions and antisocial and prosocial tendencies and sympathy at two time points. The instrument consisted of six transgression scenarios covering three domains: unfairness (not winning fairly, not keeping word), omission of a p...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - April 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Assessing behavior difficulties in students.
In this special issue, the authors aimed to contribute to the development of measuring behavior difficulties in students. First, well-established instruments were revisited and refined. Second, a case was made for multi-informant measures, which help to provide a more comprehensive picture of specific behaviors. Third, the relevance of testing for measurement invariance was emphasized. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment)
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - April 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A cross-cultural validation of the Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT): Results from ten countries across three continents.
Self-report measures of affect come with a number of difficulties that can be circumvented by using indirect measurement procedures. The Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT) is a recently developed measure of automatic activation of representations of affective states and traits that draws on participants’ ratings of the extent to which nonsense words purportedly originating from an artificial language bear positive or negative meaning. Here we compared psychometric properties of this procedure across 10 countries and provide versions in corresponding languages (Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Ita...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - March 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A theoretical approach to resolving the psychometric problems associated with the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory: Results from the USA, Australia, Slovenia, and the United Kingdom.
We examined the internal consistency, structural validity, and convergent validity of scores on a version of the ZTPI that consisted only of items that specifically referenced time constructs, the ZTPI-TP. Participants consisted of five samples of adolescents and adults from four countries: Australia (653 adults), Slovenia (425 adolescents and adults), the United Kingdom (913 adolescents; 455 adults), and the United States (815 adolescents). Structural validity analyses provided stronger support for ZTPI-TP scores than for ZTPI scores, and convergent validity evidence also provided support for ZTPI-TP scores. However, anal...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - March 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Are workaholism and work engagement in the eye of the beholder? A multirater perspective on different forms of working hard.
Virtually all studies on workaholism and engagement – two forms of heavy work investment – rely on self-part questionnaires. However, the limitations of self-reports are widely acknowledged and in their final sections, papers on workaholism and engagement typically lament the use of such measures. Investigating data other than respondents’ self-reports, such as peer ratings, may overcome these limitations. Using a sample of 73 dyads composed of focal workers and their colleagues, the present study aimed: (1) to compare focal workers’ and coworkers’ perceptions concerning their levels of work engagement and workah...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - March 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

You will attain my goal: The structure of parental goals for children based on an adapted version of the Aspirations Index.
This paper deals with parental goals for children, that is, goals parents want their children to attain by the time they reach adulthood. Presenting an adaption of the German Aspirations Index to assess parental goals for children (AI-PG), factorial structure and psychometric properties in a nonclinical sample of German parents of children between 10 and 15 years of age were investigated. Parents (NT1 = 948; NT2 = 670) rated the importance of different parental goals for children. The AI-PG structure was first examined in a subsample of mothers using confirmatory factor analyses. Main results provided support for the hypot...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - March 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Construct validity of the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (ECBI): An exploratory structural equation modeling approach.
Despite the wide use of the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (ECBI), its construct validity is still an issue of debate. Whereas previous studies primarily have relied on confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs), the present study aimed to evaluate the Norwegian 22-item version of the ECBI intensity scale using exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM), which offers more flexibility compared to traditional CFA. The study used data from three samples of parents with children with emerging or existing problem behaviors. Results showed that the ESEM model showed good fit and identified the three factors Oppositional defiant b...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - March 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The world beyond rating scales: Why we should think more carefully about the response format in questionnaires.
Researchers constructing a new questionnaire think very carefully about a lot of things: the construct definition, the target population, the wording of the items, the item selection, and so on. These are all explicit steps in the test construction process as it is described by textbooks and research articles (Clark & Watson, 1995; Simms, 2008; Ziegler, 2014). One aspect that appears to receive less attention is the choice of response format. When the questionnaire is a self-report (or other-report) measure of one or more psychological constructs, test constructors appear to automatically implement a rating scale such as s...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - March 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The reliability and validity of a modified Revised Class Play examined in Dutch elementary-school children.
Social withdrawal in children is a risk factor for maladjustment. The Revised Class Play (RCP; Masten, Morison, & Pelligrini, 1985) has often been used to identify children’s behavioral difficulties with peers. However, in previous studies the sensitive-isolated scale of the RCP appeared to measure a mixture of different types of withdrawal, including withdrawal from peers and exclusion by peers. In the present study the original RCP was modified to more clearly distinguish withdrawal from the peer group from behavior associated with exclusion by peers. Two studies in Dutch samples of 8–13-year-old children were conduc...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - December 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Development of the Mini-BCIBS: A brief bi-directional measure of posttraumatic growth.
We describe the development of a brief version of the Bi-Directional Changes in Being Scale (BCIBS; Hiskey, Troop, & Joseph, 2006), a measure of phenomenological change following stressful and traumatic life events. The psychometric properties of the mini-BCIBS were explored using data drawn from a sample of female students, survivors of a discotheque fire, and a large-scale Internet survey. Results suggest the new measure retains the breadth of experiences captured by its predecessor and is psychometrically equivalent. The new tool awaits further development among clinical samples and may help researchers explore the long...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - December 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Validity evidence of the Test of Word Reading for Portuguese elementary students.
This article presents data concerning the validity evidence of a test of word reading (TLP – Teste de Leitura de Palavras) that assesses single-word reading accuracy in Portuguese students from Grades 1 to 4. The test is composed of four vertically scaled forms, one for each grade, allowing for the evaluation of students’ word reading progression. In the internal structure-related evidence validity study, administration of the TLP to 905 Portuguese elementary students confirmed its one-dimensional structure. In the evidence based on the relationship with other variables’ study, 280 Portuguese elementary students were...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - December 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The unitary ability of IQ and indexes in WAIS-IV.
Lichtenberger and Kaufman (2009, p. 167) defined unitary ability as “an ability […] that is represented by a cohesive set of scaled scores, each reflecting slightly different or unique aspects of the ability.” Flanagan and Kaufman (2009) and Lichtenberger and Kaufman (2012), to define unitarity of IQ, use a difference of 23 IQ points between the highest score (Max) and the lowest score (Min) obtained by a subject in the four Indexes of WAIS-IV. A similar method has been used to assess the unitary ability for the four Indexes, with the threshold of 5. Such difference score (of 23 for IQ and 5 for Indexes) are consider...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - December 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The Moving-IAT: Evaluating the potential of a single-block variant of the Implicit Association Test in personality assessment.
Accumulated evidence suggests that indirect measures such as the Implicit Association Test (IAT) provide an increment in personality assessment explaining behavioral variance over and above self-reports. Likewise, it has been shown that there are several unwanted sources of variance in personality IATs potentially reducing their psychometric quality. For example, there is evidence that individuals use imagery-based facilitation strategies while performing the IAT. That is, individuals actively create mental representations of their person that fit to the category combination in the respective block, but do not necessarily ...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - December 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The Readiness to Reconcile Inventory: Assessing attitudes toward reconciliation in victims of war and conflict.
Although awareness of the importance of reconciliation in post-conflict societies has grown in recent decades, validated measures assessing victims’ attitudes toward reconciliation are lacking. To fill this gap, the Readiness to Reconcile Inventory (RRI) was developed and its factor structure and aspects of construct validity were psychometrically tested in two independent samples of survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. Exploratory factor analysis in a sample of N = 247 survivors identified a 13-item, three-factor internal structure of the RRI that was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis in an independe...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - December 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research