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Clarifying the factor structure of the Self-Compassion Scale: Nested comparisons of six confirmatory factor analysis models.
Self-compassion is associated with greater well-being and lower psychopathology. There are mixed findings regarding the factor structure and scoring of the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS). Using confirmatory factor analysis, we tested and conducted nested comparisons of six previously posited factor structures of the SCS. Participants were N = 1,158 Canadian undergraduates (72.8% women, 26.6% men, 0.6% non-binary; Mage = 19.0 years, SD = 2.3). Results best supported a two-factor hierarchical model with six lower-order factors. A general self-compassion factor was not supported at the higher- or lower-order levels; thus, a sing...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - October 7, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Thinking inconsistently: Development and validation of an instrument for assessing proneness to doublethink.
European Journal of Psychological Assessment, Vol 38(6), 2022, 463-475; doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000645People tend to simultaneously accept mutually exclusive beliefs. If they are generally prone to tolerate inconsistencies, irrespective of their content, we say they are prone to doublethink. We developed a measure to capture individual differences in this tendency and demonstrated its construct and predictive validity across two studies. In Study 1, participants (N = 240) filled in the doublethink scale, the rational/intuitive inventory, and three measures of conspiratorial beliefs (conspiracy mentality, belief in specific ...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - September 2, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Open-source personality trait norms for the United Kingdom and Ireland.
European Journal of Psychological Assessment, Vol 38(6), 2022, 432-439; doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000644Most copyrighted personality inventories facilitate norm-referencing through illustrative tables, yet their application to the many fields relevant to personality measurement is constrained by the need for stakeholders to possess the requisite financial resources to access them. Using an IPIP-NEO-300 dataset from Johnson’s IPIP-NEO data repository, we created open-source norm tables for different age groups (14–17 years; 18–25 years; and 30+ years) within a combined standardization sample from the United Kingdom (UK) ...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - August 26, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Tomayto, tomahto? An empirical comparison and integration of job crafting perspectives.
Although job crafting finds widespread application as a leading approach to bottom-up work design, the foundation of the construct is rather shaky: two different theoretical perspectives exist within the research field that have largely been treated separately. An empirical examination of their congruency is missing so far, threatening construct validity, the informative value of the emerging literature, and comparability of effects in practice. In two studies, we investigated the comparability and possible integrative approaches for the two perspectives, including different versions of existing measurement instruments. Ou...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - August 19, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The Perceived Occupational Stress Scale: A brief tool for measuring workers’ perceptions of stress at work.
This article aims to present the development and test the psychometric properties of the Perceived Occupational Stress (POS) scale, a new brief instrument aimed at rating a worker’s perception of feeling stressed at work. Six studies are conducted on an overall sample of 1,805 Italian workers, to examine both the construct and concurrent validity of the POS scale. The results demonstrate the high internal consistency (α = .82) and test-retest reliability (r = .86) of the POS scale, as well as its structural validity and concurrent validity with the Maslach Burnout Inventory (r = .68 with Emotional Exhaustion) and the Ef...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - August 19, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Measuring perceived realistic physical threat imposed by migrants: Scale development and validation.
[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported online in European Journal of Psychological Assessment on Dec 16 2021 (see record 2022-17119-001). The article entitled (https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000668) has now been published as an open access article with “© The Author(s)” and under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. The following funding information has been added: Funding — Open Access publication enabled by University of Münster.] Individuals differ in the extent to which they perceive threat imposed by out-groups like migrants. An established distinction in intergroup threat research is between symb...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - August 12, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

“The Pathological Narcissism Inventory: Measurement invariance across Serbian and USA samples and further validation”: Correction to Dinić & Vujić, 2020.
Reports an error in "The Pathological Narcissism Inventory: Measurement invariance across Serbian and USA samples and further validation" by Bojana M. Dinić and Aleksandar Vujić (European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 2020, Vol 36[4], 670-680). In the article, the Table 2 Notes on p. 673 contain some mistakes. The correct Table Notes are present in the erratum. The authors regret any inconvenience or confusion this error might have caused. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2019-54255-001.) The aim of this research was to explore measurement invariance across samples from Serbia and...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - August 9, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Planning a career in psychological assessment: Lessons learned from the EAPA Winter School 2021.
Two aims that are explicitly formulated in the mission statement of the European Association of Psychological Assessment (EAPA) are to “promote the interest of young professionals and scientists in the science of psychological assessment” and to “create opportunities for scientific exchange about psychological assessment.” In an effort to address these goals, EAPA held its first-ever Winter School bringing early career researchers (ECRs) and experts together. The school was hosted by the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg on May 7, 2021 (online due to the pandemic situation). In this Editorial, we highlight ...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - August 9, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Proximity of items does not necessarily affect their correlation: Two failed replications of item proximity effect.
In this paper, we attempted to detect the effect of provided answers on those that succeed them, the “item proximity effect,” within a questionnaire with randomized item order for each respondent. In two studies, we administered personality inventories to two samples of mostly undergraduate students, consisting of 742 and 205 respondents, respectively. We expected to see a strong item proximity effect that quickly diminishes with higher item distances, but we found no evidence of such effect in the data. Thus, we failed to conceptually replicate the findings of previous studies. After discussing the probable causes for...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - August 2, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Development of short and ultra-short forms of the Multidimensional Self-Esteem Scale: Relations to the Big Five, narcissism, and academic achievement in adults and adolescents.
The multidimensional assessment of self-esteem plays an important role in self-esteem research. In this article, we present the development of a short form and an ultra-short form of the Multidimensional Self-Esteem Scale (MSES; Schütz et al., 2016). Items were selected by eliminating redundant items and by using a deterministic search algorithm in a sample of 644 adults (Mage = 47.0). Construct validity was established by investigating the relations between each MSES short form and other constructs and cross-validating the factor structure of both short forms of the MSES in 674 adolescents (Mage = 14.2) and in 425 adults...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - July 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Using differential item functioning to analyze the domain generality of a common scientific reasoning test.
This study applied three recently developed methods of analyzing differential item functioning (DIF) to evaluate the domain generality assumption of a common scientific reasoning test. Additionally, we evaluated the usefulness of these new, tree- and lasso-based, methods to analyze DIF and compared them with methods based on classical test theory. We gave the scientific reasoning test to 507 university students majoring in physics, biology, or medicine. All three DIF analysis methods indicated a domain bias present in about one-third of the items, mostly benefiting biology students. We did not find this bias by using metho...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - July 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale (U-MICS): Psychometric properties of its adaptation to the religious domain of identity.
The current study proposed the adaptation of the Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale (U-MICS) to the religious domain as an instrument to measure both individuals’ religious identity formation processes (when a variable-centered approach is adopted) and religious identity statuses (when a person-centered approach is adopted). The scale has been tested on a sample of 727 Italian participants aged 13–65 years, by collecting evidence of score structure, convergent, and criterion-related validity. Regarding the score structure validity, we confirmed that religious identity formation consists of three processes...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - July 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Measuring the 7Cs of vaccination readiness.
We report a bifactor measurement model, convergent validity with other questionnaires, and an explanation of 85% variance in the willingness to vaccinate against COVID-19. We also present a 7-item short version of the scale. The instrument is publicly available in several languages (www.vaccination-readiness.com), and we seek collaboration to provide translations of our instrument into other languages. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment)
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - July 15, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Establishing the psychometric properties of the self-report Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale for Children and Adolescents in a general population adolescent sample.
The Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale for Children and Adolescents (LSAS-CA) is a valid and reliable clinician-administered measure of social anxiety symptoms in young people. It has been adapted for self-report completion, and although the psychometric properties of this version of the scale have been examined in Spanish, Hebrew, and French language versions, this has not yet been done for the English language version. In the present study, we examined the factor structure and psychometric properties of the self-report version of the scale (LSAS-CA-SR) in a sample of UK adolescents recruited from schools. The factor structur...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - July 15, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Measuring distinct social skills via multiple speed assessments: A behavior-focused personnel selection approach.
[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported online in European Journal of Psychological Assessment on Dec 16 2021 (see record 2022-17114-001). The article entitled “Measuring distinct social skills via multiple speed assessments – A behavior-focused personnel selection approach” by Simon M. Breil, Boris Forthmann, & Mitja D. Back (https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000657) has now been published as an open access article with “© The Author(s)” and under a CC BY 4.0 license. The following funding information has been added: Funding — Open Access publication enabled by University of Münster.] S...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - July 15, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research