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Rodrigo Moreta-Herrera; Alberto Rodríguez-Lorenzana; Nazuri Santillán; Micaela Jiménez-Borja; Carlos José Jiménez-Mosquera; Xavier Oriol-Granado; Sergio Domínguez-Lara – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
The aim of this study is to find evidence of factorial validity, measure equivalence by gender, and internal consistency of the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF) in a sample of Ecuadorian teenagers. The study uses a psychometric design to explore the validity and reliability of the measure. Participants of the study were 1154 teenagers…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Mental Health, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries
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Yanjing Cao; Chenchen Xu; Shan Lu; Qi Li; Jing Xiao – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
The patient health questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) is widely utilized in assessing individuals' depression levels. Nevertheless, research regarding its factor structure and measurement invariance remains inadequate. The aim of this study was to delve into the factor structure of the PHQ-9 and to further investigate its measurement invariance across gender…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Error of Measurement, Factor Analysis, Age Differences
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Aghebati, Asma; Javaherirenani, Razieh; Amin, Razieh; Pazhooyan, Mahdiye; Farahani, Hojjatollah; Ahadianfard, Pantea – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Purpose: This study explores the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Child and Youth Resilience Measure--Revised (CYRM-R) in adolescent population. Method: A sample of 323 Iranian adolescents (12-18 years old) completed the CYRM-R, Resilient Scale (RS), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II), and Mental Health Continuum Short Form…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Translation, Indo European Languages, Resilience (Psychology)
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Danuza, Teuta; Masten, Robert – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
The study examined the validity of the scores produced by the Albanian version of the Olweus Bullying Questionnaire-Revised (OBQ-R), a self-reported measure for assessing the phenomena of bullying among school students. A sample of third to ninth grade students (N = 3262) completed the OBQ-R and the data were analyzed using an exploratory factor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bullying, Questionnaires, Elementary School Students
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Parkin, Jason R.; Wang, Ze – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
The Wechsler individual achievement test, third edition (WIAT-III) is a popular individually administered achievement battery. Despite its ubiquity in assessment practice, scant research into its structure exists. We analyzed the structure of the WIAT-III in a sample of students in Grades 3-12 referred for special education evaluations (n = 355).…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Special Education
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Noorazar, Seyed Gholamreza; Mohebbi, Mina; Alizadeh-Maralani, Fatemeh – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
Examining the long-term impact of bullying can facilitate using retrospective bullying experiences questionnaire (RBEQ) which provides information regarding bystander, bully and victim through childhood to adolescence. This study aimed to investigate the validity and reliability of this questionnaire in Iranian samples. A total of 92 male and 283…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Bullying, Psychometrics, College Students
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McGill, Ryan J. – Psychology in the Schools, 2017
The present study examined the factor structure of the Luria interpretive model for the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children-Second Edition (KABC-II) with normative sample participants aged 7-18 (N = 2,025) using confirmatory factor analysis with maximum-likelihood estimation. For the eight subtest Luria configuration, an alternative…
Descriptors: Children, Intelligence Tests, Models, Factor Structure
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Dombrowski, Stefan C.; Golay, Philippe; McGill, Ryan J.; Canivez, Gary L. – Psychology in the Schools, 2018
Bayesian structural equation modeling (BSEM) was used to investigate the latent structure of the Differential Ability Scales-Second Edition core battery using the standardization sample normative data for ages 7-17. Results revealed plausibility of a three-factor model, consistent with publisher theory, expressed as either a higher-order (HO) or a…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Bayesian Statistics, Factor Analysis, Aptitude Tests
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Hall, William J. – Psychology in the Schools, 2016
This article describes the development and preliminary validation of the Bullying, Harassment, and Aggression Receipt Measure (BullyHARM). The development of the BullyHARM involved a number of steps and methods, including a literature review, expert review, cognitive testing, readability testing, data collection from a large sample, reliability…
Descriptors: Bullying, Aggression, Middle School Students, Readability
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Uzuntiryaki-Kondakci, Esen; Kirbulut, Zubeyde Demet – Psychology in the Schools, 2016
The purpose of this study was to develop a Meta-Affective Trait Scale (MATS) to measure the meta-affective inclinations related to emotions that students have while they are studying for their classes. First, a pilot study was performed with 380 10th-grade students. Results of the exploratory factor analysis supported a two-factor structure of the…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, High School Students, Measures (Individuals), Goodness of Fit
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Cleary, Timothy J.; Dembitzer, Leah; Kettler, Ryan J. – Psychology in the Schools, 2015
Using a sample of 348 middle school students, we gathered evidence regarding the internal consistency of scores, as well as the internal factor structure and convergent validity evidence for inferences from a self-report questionnaire called the Self-Regulation Strategy Inventory-Self Report. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the fit…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Scores, Factor Structure, Questionnaires
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Ward, Kimberly E.; Rothlisberg, Barbara A.; McIntosh, David E.; Bradley, Madeline H. – Psychology in the Schools, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine the factor structure of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition (SB-V), based on the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory of intelligence using a sample of 200 preschool children. The CHC framework uses three different models: one similar to Spearman's "g", one similar to the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Intelligence Tests, Factor Structure, Cognitive Ability
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Hazel, Cynthia E.; Vazirabadi, G. Emma; Gallagher, John – Psychology in the Schools, 2013
This article proposes a model of student school engagement, comprising aspirations, belonging, and productivity. From this model, items for the Student School Engagement Measure (SSEM) were developed. The SSEM was validated with data from 396 eighth graders in an urban school district. Utilizing structural equation modeling, the second-order…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Models, Measures (Individuals), Grade 8