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The Georgia School Personnel Survey of School Climate: Validity Evidence from a Sample of Portuguese Teachers and Support Staff
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Sofia Abreu Mendes; Jorge Sinval; Irene Cadime; Bruna Rodrigues; Richard Inman; Jesslynn Rocha Neves-McCain; Tamika Patrice La Salle-Finley – British Educational Research Journal, 2025
This study focuses on the adaptation of the Georgia School Personnel Survey (GSPS) to assess perceptions of school climate among Portuguese educational professionals, including teachers and support staff. Data from two samples (n[subscript 1] = 1965; n[subscript 2] = 2884) were analysed in the study. Through confirmatory factor analysis, the…
Descriptors: School Personnel, Surveys, Educational Environment, Test Validity
Exploring the Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance of the Teacher Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire across Four European Countries
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Demos Michael; Anastasia Vatou; Vicky Charalambous; Christos Pezirkianidis; Charalambos Vrasidas; Maria Evangelou-Tsitiridou; George Manolitsis; Angeliki Mouzaki; Maria Kypriotaki; Vasileios Oikonomidis; Filipe Piedade; Ana Lemos; Diana Alves; Catarina Grande; Joana Cadima; Georgeta Chirlesan; Mihaela-Manuela Ciucurel; Duminica Delia; Vasilis Grammatikopoulos – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2025
Teacher well-being is a psychological asset for educators, often associated with job engagement and retention. However, sophisticated measures to comprehensively assess teacher well-being are still under investigation. This study explores the factor structure and cross-country comparability of the Teacher Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire (TSWQ)…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Questionnaires, Well Being, Early Childhood Teachers
Measuring Need-Supportive and Need-Thwarting Behaviors among Athletes from Different Sports: Scale Validity and Reliability
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Miguel Jacinto; Diogo Monteiro; Luís Cid; Diogo Teixeira; Rui Matos; Raul Antunes; Filipe Rodrigues – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2024
The objective of the present research is to examine the factor structure of the Interpersonal Behavior Questionnaire (IBQ) and the Interpersonal Behavior Self Questionnaire (IBQ-Self) in the sport context. Confirmatory factor analyses were used to assess the psychometric properties and measurement invariance across sex and sports. For the IBQ, a…
Descriptors: Athletes, Athletics, Factor Structure, Interpersonal Relationship
Penn State Worry Questionnaire in Emotional Disorders: Validation and Normative Data for Portuguese Population
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Oliveira, João Tiago; Faustino, Divo; Freitas, Fátima; Gonçalves, Miguel M.; Ribeiro, Eugénia; Gonçalves, Sónia; Machado, Paulo P. P. – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2023
Worry is a phenomenon that is present in multiple psychopathologies. Given the widely accepted transdiagnostic role that worry plays in psychopathology, reliable measures for this construct are pivotal for clinical practice. The Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) is one of the most widely used and established measures of worry in both clinical…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Questionnaires, Emotional Disturbances, Test Validity
An Application of the Transtheoretical Model to Climate Change Prevention: Validation of the Climate Change Stages of Change Questionnaire in Middle School Students and Their Schoolteachers
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Inman, Richard A.; Moreira, Paulo A. S.; Faria, Sara; Araújo, Marta; Cunha, Diana; Pedras, Susana; Correia Lopes, Joana – Environmental Education Research, 2022
Certain behaviors, especially when adopted by a majority, can help limit the magnitude of climate change. In this cross-sectional study, the stages of change from the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) are applied to environmentally-significant behavior. We develop and test a new scale -- the Climate Change Stages of Change Questionnaire (CCSOCQ) -- for…
Descriptors: Climate, Behavior Change, Models, Test Construction
Measuring Preservice Foreign Language Teachers' Attitudes Toward Inclusive Education through a Newly Developed Scale
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Fernández-Portero, Ignacio – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
As a consequence of the inclusion of students with special educational needs in mainstream classrooms, there is a need to measure the attitudes of language teachers toward inclusive education. This study used an exploratory sequential mixed methods research design to validate the construct of a newly developed scale. After exploratory qualitative…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction