The 10-item Team Player Inventory assesses the degree to which individuals are positively predisposed toward organizational team-working environments. Discusses how this inventory will assist researchers in testing theoretical models of team effectiveness and practitioners in determining the degree to which specific individuals will react…

Specific psychological, behavioral, and cognitive characteristics known to be related to clinical eating disorders were examined in two studies undertaken to explore whether these characteristics vary by eating-disorder-continuum placement. Results of these two studies support the construct validity of the eating-disorder continuum. Implications…

Holland's theory provides a means of describing both people and environments. He has developed techniques for assessing and classifying different vocational instruments. His newest measure, the Position Classification Inventory, should stimulate new research in vocational psychology. (49 references) (Author/SK)

Describes the development of an instrument designed to measure abuse characteristics and severity. The first study surveys professionals to determine rankings for abuse severity; the second examines interrater reliability; and the third study evaluates construct validity. Findings suggest that the instrument's scales can be reliably coded from…

Reviews literature supporting the validity of the career search self-efficacy construct. Describes potential sources of career search self-efficacy and discusses future research directions. (SK)

While the reliability and validity of Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology (IDS) scores have been established with outpatient adults being treated in community psychiatric clinics, it has not been used in special or dually diagnosed populations. Establishes internal consistency, concurrent validity, and construct validity for both the clinical…

Expectations for reporting factor analysis results as part of construct validation are explored in the context of emerging views of measurement validity. Desired practices are discussed for both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. A short computer program for conducting parallel analysis is included. (Author/SLD)

Finds limited usefulness of the demographic variables in explaining communication satisfaction reaffirms for the importance of viewing organizational communication within the contingency framework finds the communication satisfaction framework provided a useful tool for explaining end-product variables and was more effective in explaining job…

Reanalyzed data from the Self-Description Questionnaire II (SDQII) from an earlier study of 376 gifted students, and a new study of 837 gifted students to explore alternative approaches to missing data and data normalization. Results strongly support the construct validity of responses to the SDQII by gifted adolescents. (SLD)

Presents an exploratory factor analysis of the scores of 248 counselors-in-training on the Counselor Skills Personal Development Rating Form (CSPD-RF). Authors of the test hypothesized that the CPSD-RF measured 2 factors, personal development and skills development. Factor analysis revealed 4 factors accounting for 58.4% of the total variance,…

Examines first and second graders' decoding of one-syllable words and nonwords, each comprised of a high- to moderate-utility onset and a high-utility rime. Finds the construct validity of decoding items varied, depending on whether they were words or nonwords. Notes a superior construct validity of words over nonwords as decoding items. (RS)

Discussion of library anxiety and computer anxiety focuses on a study of undergraduates that investigated the construct validity of the Computer Anxiety Index and the Library Anxiety Scale. Explains the use of the Institute for Personality and Ability Testing (IPAT) Anxiety Scale for the criterion measure of anxiety. (Author/LRW)

Performed exploratory factor analysis of the responses of 458 older adults, aged 60 to 100 years, to the Adult Manifest Anxiety Scale-Elderly Version (based on a scale by J. Taylor, 1953). Found a three-factor structure of anxiety consistent with current theories of anxiety that supports the construct validity of the measure. (SLD)

Conducted simultaneous group confirmatory factor analyses of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R)(R. Hare, 1991) with 740 alcoholic inpatients. Results provide general support for the use of the PCL-R with alcoholic inpatients, although there was substantial intercorrelation for the factors of Personality and Behavioral Features. (SLD)

Discusses the papers in this special issue, emphasizing the practical applicability of nonparametric item response theory (NIRT) and how NIRT addresses lack-of-fit issues. Also discusses the ability of NIRT to assess latent multidimensionality and the relation of latent multidimensionality analyses to construct validity. (SLD)