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Can psychological assessment contribute to a better world? Our discipline’s contribution to the sustainable development goals for 2030.
Iliescu and Greiff recently pointed out that psychological testing has traditionally adhered to strong ethical principles, which puts the field in a good position for advising on sustainable development. In the same editorial, they also matched psychological testing with the UN “Global Issues Overview” and reached the conclusion that psychological assessment does not respond to great world problems. Although Psychology, in general, is regarded as a hub science, the psychological assessment does not seem to have such visibility, and with respect to this matter, our discipline occupies a rather marginal space. The reason...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - October 24, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Measuring growth mindset: Validation of a three-item and a single-item scale in adolescents and adults.
European Journal of Psychological Assessment, Vol 40(1), 2024, 84-95; doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000735A growth mindset is a belief that personal characteristics, specifically intellectual ability, are malleable and can be developed by investing time and effort. Numerous studies have investigated the associations between a growth mindset and academic achievement, and large intervention programs have been established to train adolescents to develop a stronger growth mindset. However, methodological research on the adequacy of the measures used to assess a growth mindset is scarce. In our study, we conducted one of the first com...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - October 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Validation of the Dutch version of the Plymouth Sensory Imagery Questionnaire.
European Journal of Psychological Assessment, Vol 40(1), 2024, 73-83; doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000729Mental imagery plays an important role in the onset and maintenance of psychological disorders as well as their treatment. Therefore, a reliable and valid measure of mental imagery is essential. Andrade and colleagues (2014) developed the Plymouth Sensory Imagery Questionnaire (PsiQ), which contains 35 items (long version) or 21 items (shortened version) measuring the vividness of mental imagery in seven different modalities: vision, sound, smell, taste, touch, bodily sensation, and emotion. Andrade et al. reported a seven-fa...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - October 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Emotional intelligence as a personality state: Results from multilevel confirmatory factor analysis with daily diary data.
In conclusion, the WLEIS is a configural cluster construct, believed to be a valuable and reliable tool for assessing enacted EI within the workplace. Implications for future research on enacted EI are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment)
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - October 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Receptivity to instructional feedback: A validation study in the secondary school context in Singapore.
European Journal of Psychological Assessment, Vol 40(1), 2024, 22-32; doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000733The purpose of this study was to report validity evidence for the instrument intended to measure receptivity to instructional feedback in a sample of secondary school students from Singapore (N = 314). We tested a nested hierarchy of hypotheses for addressing the cross-group (i.e., gender) invariance and compared means on the receptivity to feedback subscales between gender groups. We also examined whether receptivity to feedback predicted student grades. The four-factor hypothesized model comprising experiential attitudes, i...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - October 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The impact of different methods to correct for response styles on the external validity of self-reports.
European Journal of Psychological Assessment, Vol 40(1), 2024, 13-21; doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000731Response styles (RSs) such as acquiescence represent systematic respondent behaviors in self-report questionnaires beyond the actual item content. They distort trait estimates and contribute to measurement bias in questionnaire-based research. Although various approaches were proposed to correct the influence of RSs, little is known about their relative performance. Because different correction methods formalize the latent traits differently, it is unclear how model choice affects the external validity of the corrected measur...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - October 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Delaying academic tasks and feeling bad about it: Development and validation of a six-item scale measuring academic procrastination.
European Journal of Psychological Assessment, Vol 40(1), 2024, 59-72; doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000728Procrastination is the irrational delay of an intended task and is common among students. A delay can only be defined as procrastination when it is voluntary, the action was intended but not implemented, and the delay is accompanied by subjective discomfort. Established scales of procrastination cover mainly behavioral aspects but have neglected the emotional aspect. This inaccuracy concerning the construct validity might entail misconceptions of procrastination. Accordingly, we developed and validated the Behavioral and Emot...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - September 22, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Meta-analysis of factor analyses of the General Health Questionnaire—Short forms GHQ-28 and GHQ-30.
European Journal of Psychological Assessment, Vol 40(1), 2024, 46-58; doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000727Two meta-analyses of exploratory factor analyses of the General Health Questionnaire short forms, GHQ-28 (N = 26,848, k = 40) and GHQ-30 (N = 43,151 k = 25), were conducted to determine the consistent factors found in each test and any common factors across them. Five databases (PsycINFO, PubMed, BASE, Semantic, and Google Scholar) were searched in 2021. Reproduced correlations derived from the original studies’ factor matrices and aggregated across studies were factor analyzed for the meta-analyses. For the GHQ-28, the sta...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - September 22, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Evaluating gender differences in problematic smartphone use: Measurement invariance and differential item functioning of the Smartphone Addiction Inventory (SPAI-I) in a sample of Italian college students.
This study aimed to examine whether men and women interpreted the Italian version of the SPAI (SPAI-I) similarly and, consequently, whether the observed gender differences in SPAI scores, which have been shown in previous studies, could be due to true differences, rather than to differences in measurement. Six hundred nineteen Italian young adults (Mage = 22.02 ± 2.63; 55.7% women) took part in the study and completed the SPAI-I. Multigroup CFA was applied to test the measurement invariance across gender, and the item parameter invariance was investigated with the item-response theory (IRT) differential item functioning (...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - September 22, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

How fair is my test? A ratio coefficient to help represent consequential validity.
European Journal of Psychological Assessment, Vol 39(6), 2023, 416-423; doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000724The degree to which test scores can support justified and fair decisions about demographically diverse participants has been an important aspect of educational and psychological testing for millennia. In the last 30 years, this aspect of measurement has come to be known as consequential validity, and it has sparked scholarly debate as to how responsible psychometricians should be for the fairness of the tests they create and how the field might be able to quantify that fairness and communicate it to applied researchers and ...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - August 18, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Workplace stress in real time: Three parsimonious scales for the experience sampling measurement of stressors and strain at work.
European Journal of Psychological Assessment, Vol 39(6), 2023, 424-432; doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000725Experience sampling methods are increasingly used in workplace stress assessment, yet rarely developed and validated following the available best practices. Here, we developed and evaluated parsimonious measures of momentary stressors (Task Demand and Task Control) and the Italian adaptation of the Multidimensional Mood Questionnaire as an indicator of momentary strain (Negative Valence, Tense Arousal, and Fatigue). Data from 139 full-time office workers that received seven experience sampling questionnaires per day over 3 ...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - August 11, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Some thoughts and considerations on accommodations in testing.
This editorial focuses on the concept of accommodation in testing, that is, individualized changes – however small they might be – to one or several components of the test in response to a need to preserve fairness and/or validity in special populations or individualized cases. Accommodations target of some of the elements of standardization in a test: the standardized administration procedure, presentation of stimuli, response formats, or mechanics of the test administration process are replaced with ad-hoc and individualized procedures. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: European Jo...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - August 11, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Semantic spaces are not created equal—How should we weigh them in the sequel? On composites in automated creativity scoring.
European Journal of Psychological Assessment, Vol 39(6), 2023, 449-461; doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000723Semantic distance scoring provides an attractive alternative to other scoring approaches for responses in creative thinking tasks. In addition, evidence in support of semantic distance scoring has increased over the last few years. In one recent approach, it has been proposed to combine multiple semantic spaces to better balance the idiosyncratic influences of each space. Thereby, final semantic distance scores for each response are represented by a composite or factor score. However, semantic spaces are not necessarily equ...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - August 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

How vivid is your mental imagery? Validation of the vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire in five Polish samples.
European Journal of Psychological Assessment, Vol 39(6), 2023, 437-448; doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000721Across five studies (total N> 3,600), we report the psychometric properties of the Polish version of the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ-2PL). Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed a unidimensional structure of this instrument; measurement invariance concerning participants’ gender was established as well. The VVIQ-2PL showed excellent test-retest reliability, high internal consistency, and adequate construct validity. As predicted, art students scored significantly higher in visual mental imagery than th...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - August 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Investigating measurement invariance of the Psychological Entitlement Scale – Grandiose-Based and Vulnerable-Based.
European Journal of Psychological Assessment, Vol 39(6), 2023, 433-436; doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000726Entitlement has attracted interest across various social science disciplines due to its broad connection to selfish decision-making outcomes and mental health. Although unidimensional entitlement scales have been widely used, these scales conflate vulnerable- and grandiose-based entitlement forms. The Psychological Entitlement Scale—Grandiose-Based and Vulnerable-Based (PES-G/V) was recently devised to measure these entitlement forms. Prior work has supported the structure and construct validity of the PES-G/V, but no res...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - August 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research