Influence of the difficulty of the Matching Familiar Figures Test-20 on the assessment of reflection–impulsivity: An item analysis

Carretero‐Dios, Hugo; Santos-Roig, Macarena De los

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“…Broadly, the data obtained by means of the main instruments for the assessment of R-I, the Matching Familiar Figures Test, MFFT (Kagan, 1965) or the Matching Familiar Figures Test 20, MFFT20 (Cairns & Cammock, 1978, 1982, have provided support for the essential aspects of the scientific reliability of the reflection-impulsivity construct (Servera, 1992;Buela-Casal, Carretero-Dios & De los Santos-Roig, 2001a, b;Buela-Casal, Carretero-Dios, De los Santos-Roig & Bermúdez, 2003;Carretero-Dios, De los Santos-Roig & Buela-Casal, 2008). Nevertheless, it should be stressed that from a theoretical perspective, R-I need not correlate with other behavior or personality areas.…”

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Role of the matching familiar figures test-20 in the analysis of theoretical validity of the reflection-impulsivity: a study with personality

Carretero‐Dios

Santos-Roig

2009

Int. j. psychol. res.

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The present study analyzes the theoretical validity of the cognitive style reflection-impulsivity with an approach based on cognition. For this purpose, it is explored the relationship between personality and reflection-impulsivity. The Matching Familiar Figures Test 20, MFFT-20 (Cairns & Cammock, 1978) was used. This test has not been employed in previous investigations with the same goal. However, the MFFT-20 has proved to be the most reliable test to assess reflection-impulsivity in children between six and twelve years old, and is the one recommended by specialized bibliography. The assessment of personality was made by means of the Spanish adaptation of the Children´s Personality Questionnaire, CPQ (Porter & Cattell, 1979). Results obtained from a sample of 94 participants between eleven and twelve years old indicate the inexistence of correlation between the studied dimensions of personality and reflection-impulsivity. As hypothesized, the only consistent and significant relationships were those of the scale of mental ability in the CPQ, and the dimension dominant-submissive, both interpreted within the frame of cognitive styles. Obtained data support the theoretical validity of the reflection-impulsivity with an approach based on cognition, as well as the divergent validity of the MFFT-20 for a sample of Spanish children. RESUMENEn este trabajo se analiza la validez teórica del estilo cognitivo reflexividad-impulsividad a través de una aproximación basada en la cognición. Para ello, se ha analizado la relación entre este estilo cognitivo y la personalidad, usando para la evaluación de la reflexividad-impulsividad el The Matching Familiar Figures Test 20, MFFT-20 (Cairns & Cammock, 1978). Este instrumento no ha sido empleado con tal propósito en la investigación previa, y esto a pesar de haberse constatado que se trata de la herramienta de evaluación con más garantías científicas para la evaluación de la reflexividad-impulsividad en niños de entre 6 y 12 años, y por lo tanto, la recomendada por los especialistas en esta área de trabajo. La evaluación de la personalidad se realizó a través de la adaptación española del Children´s Personality Questionnaire, CPQ (Porter & Cattell, 1979). Los resultados obtenidos a partir de una muestra de 94 participantes de entre 6 y 12 años ponen de manifiesto que la reflexividad-impulsividad y la personalidad son constructos independientes. Tal y como se predijo, las únicas relaciones significativas entre ambos aparecen para las subescalas de habilidad mental del CPQ, y la dimensión dominante-sumiso. Estos datos apoyan la validez teórica de la reflexividad-impulsividad conceptualizada a partir de una aproximación centrada en la cognición, al igual que la validez divergente del MFFT-20.Palabras clave: Estilos cognitivos, reflexividad-impulsividad, personalidad, MFFT-20, CPQ. Artículo recibido/Article

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Role of the matching familiar figures test-20 in the analysis of theoretical validity of the reflection-impulsivity: a study with personality

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Santos-Roig

2009

Int. j. psychol. res.

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“…In order to assess the validity of the MFFT-2021, we obtained comparison data from the study by Viator et al (2020) , who used a 20-item version of the MFFT based on images found via Internet searches and references from previous research ( Kagan et al, 1964 ; Cairns and Cammock, 1978 ; Carretero-Dios et al, 2008 ; Caswell et al, 2015 ; Ramaekers et al, 2016 ). This comparison data establish a baseline for measuring whether the MFFT-2021 enhances participant engagement, or not.…”

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Testing the validity and reliability of the Matching Familiar Figures Test-2021: An updated behavioral measure of reflection–impulsivity

Viator

2022

Front. Psychol.

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The Matching Familiar Figures Test (MFFT) is a well-known and extensively used behavioral measure of reflection-impulsivity. However, the instrument has several deficiencies, including images designed for school-age children in the United States during the 1960s. Most importantly, an adult version of the instrument is currently unavailable and the lack of a single repository for the images raises questions regarding the MFFT’s validity and reliability. We developed a 21st century version of the MFFT using images that are familiar to adults and reside in a freely accessible repository. We conducted two studies examining validity and reliability issues. In Study 1, participants interacting with the MFFT-2021, versus those interacting with the original MFFT20, spent more time on the task, took more time in making their first response, and were more likely to complete the task without errors, even though the average number of errors was higher than the comparison group. The coherence of these results is evidence of convergent validity. Regarding predictive validity, the MFFT-2021 remained a reliable predictor of rational thinking, such that participants who demonstrated more reflection (less impulsivity) tended to avoid rational thinking errors. Also, performance on the MFFT-2021 predicted higher quality judgments in processing job characteristic cues with embedded interactions, a form of configural information processing. We also found evidence of concurrent validity: performance on the MFFT-2021 differed in a predictable manner for participants grouped by their performance on the Cognitive Reflection Test. In Study 2, we tested discriminant validity by comparing participant performance on the MFFT-2021 to their performance on the Information Sampling Task (IST), another behavioral measure of reflection-impulsivity used in studies of psychopharmacological and addiction behaviors. For our participants (undergraduate business students), we found that the MFFT was a stronger predictor of performance on rational thinking tasks, and, contrary to prior studies, our exploratory factor analysis identified separate factors for the MFFT-2021 and the IST, supporting discriminant validity, indicating that these two instruments measure different subtypes of reflection-impulsivity.

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“…The reliabilities of the MSLSS dimensions were assessed by Cronbach's a coefficient and each dimension's item-total correlations. Here acceptable criteria were C0.70 for Cronbach's a coefficients, and C0.25 for item-total correlations (Nunnally and Bernstein 1994;Carretero-Dios et al 2007). …”

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Turkish Validity Examination of the Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale

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Kuruüzüm

2008

Soc Indic Res

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Influence of the difficulty of the Matching Familiar Figures Test-20 on the assessment of reflection–impulsivity: An item analysis

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Role of the matching familiar figures test-20 in the analysis of theoretical validity of the reflection-impulsivity: a study with personality

Role of the matching familiar figures test-20 in the analysis of theoretical validity of the reflection-impulsivity: a study with personality

Testing the validity and reliability of the Matching Familiar Figures Test-2021: An updated behavioral measure of reflection–impulsivity

Turkish Validity Examination of the Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale

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