The role of factor analysis in the development and evaluation of personality scales

Briggs, Stephen; Cheek, Julianne

doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.1986.tb00391.x

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“…Item-total correlations above .20 are seen as appropriate (Streiner, Norman, & Cairney, 2015). Inter-item correlations between .2 and .4 are seen as an optimal level of homogeneity, values above .5 indicate the redundancy of some items because of equality (Briggs & Cheek, 1986). …”

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Efficient identification of mental health problems in refugees in Germany: the Refugee Health Screener

Kaltenbach

Härdtner

Hermenau

et al. 2017

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Background: A substantial number of refugees present with mental disorders. This appears particularly acute in the currently increasing refugee populations in Europe. Although EU guidelines demand the identification and support of vulnerable individuals such as survivors of trauma, no adequately validated and comprehensive mental health screening instruments for refugees residing in Europe currently exist. Objective: We studied the feasibility, validity, and reliability of the Refugee Health Screener-15 (RHS-15) – a time-efficient and easy-to-implement screening developed by Hollifield et al. (2013) – as a self-rating and interview instrument. Methods: A sample of refugees from different countries (N = 86), representative of those who had arrived around the turn of the year 2015/2016 in Germany, filled in the RHS-15 on their own. A semi-structured clinical interview was later conducted with a random subsample (n = 56). Results: Fifty-two percent of the refugees examined screened positive in the RHS-15, thus indicating current mental health problems. The RHS-15 showed a good feasibility, reliability, and validity in both the self-rating and the interview version. It detected clinically relevant mental health problems when PTSD, depression, anxiety, or somatization problems were present. A shorter 13-item version proved to be equally valid. Conclusions: Together with previous research on the RHS in refugees living in the US, this suggests that the RHS is a time-efficient and accurate instrument that is able to detect common mental health problems in a wide range of refugees. Prospectively, the RHS could be used as an instrument for identifying vulnerable refugees, for example, by integrating it in the initial medical examination in the host community, thereby initiating support.

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Efficient identification of mental health problems in refugees in Germany: the Refugee Health Screener

Kaltenbach

Härdtner

Hermenau

et al. 2017

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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“…the scale items tap a single, general factor measuring a unitary attribute (Briggs & Cheek, 1986). In addition, two tests examining test-retest reliability over 4-and 5-month intervals provided evidence for the scale's temporal stability.…”

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Self-concept clarity: Measurement, personality correlates, and cultural boundaries.

Campbell¹,

Trapnell²,

Heine³

et al. 1996

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Self-concept clarity (SCC) references a structural aspect oftbe self-concept: the extent to which selfbeliefs are clearly and confidently defined, internally consistent, and stable. This article reports the SCC Scale and examines (a) its correlations with self-esteem (SE), the Big Five dimensions, and self-focused attention (Study l); (b) its criterion validity (Study 2); and (c) its cultural boundaries (Study 3). Low SCC was independently associated with high Neuroticism, low SE, low Conscientiousness, low Agreeableness, chronic self-analysis, low internal state awareness, and a ruminative form of self-focused attention. The SCC Scale predicted unique variance in 2 external criteria: the stability and consistency of self-descriptions. Consistent with theory on Eastern and Western selfconstruals, Japanese participants exhibited lower levels of SCC and lower correlations between SCC and SE than did Canadian participants. Within the last couple of decades, psychologists' view of the self-concept has undergone a dramatic transformation (Markus & Wurf, 1987). Early researchers treated the self-concept as a unitary, monolithic entity-a stable, generalized view of the self-and typically focused their research efforts on a single aspect of the self-concept, self-esteem. Contemporary researchers, in contrast, rely on a multifaceted, dynamic construal in which the self-concept is defined as a cognitive schema-an organized knowledge structure that contains traits, values, episodic and semantic memories about the self and controls the processing of self-relevant information (e.g.,

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“…O modelo proposto (Taylor, Bagby, & Parker, 2003) considera que cada item deve aferir apenas um fator, diferenciando-se assim do modelo fatorial exploratório, em que cada item apresenta saturações nos diversos fatores com valores próprios superiores a 1. Partindo-se da hipotética associação entre as dimensões do construto avaliado para a amostra (Briggs & Cheek, 1986) (Taylor et al, 2003).…”

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Validação brasileira da escala de autopercepção de harter para crianças

Valentini¹,

Villwock²,

Vieira³

et al. 2010

Psicol. Reflex. Crit.

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ResumoO Self-perception Profile for Children (SPPC) é usado para investigar a autopercepção de crianças. O objetivo deste estudo foi traduzir o SPPC para o português e verificar a validade dos itens, da análise fatorial confirmatória e da consistência interna teste-reteste dessa versão. Participaram do estudo, além de sete profissionais, 746 crianças (8 a 12 anos), as quais responderam o instrumento em dois momentos. Os resultados indicam que a versão brasileira contém questões claras e pertinentes (CVCt > 0,70) e apresenta índices satisfatórios de validade fatorial confirmatória (χ2/gl = 4,33; Non-normed Fit Index = 0,958; Comparative Fit Index = 0,967 e Tucker e Lewis´s Index of Fit = 0,962) e de consistência interna teste-reteste, e assim a versão brasileira se mostrou válida. Palavras-chave: Escala de Autopercepção; Validação; Autoconceito; Crianças. AbstractHarter's Self-perception Profile for Children (SPPC) is used to evaluate children's self-worth. The objective of this study was to translate and verify the validity of the items, the confirmatory factorial analysis and the test-retest internal consistence of the Brazilian version of SPPC. The participants of this study were 7 professionals and 746 children (8 to 12 years old) who answered the instrument at two different moments. The results indicated that the Brazilian version contains clear and pertinent questions (CVCt > 0.70), shows satisfactory indices of the confirmatory factorial validity (χ2/gl = 4.33; Nonnormed Fit Index = 0.958; Comparative Fit Index = 0.967 and Tucker and Lewis's Index of Fit = 0.962) as well as of internal consistence. Thus, the Brazilian version showed to be valid. Keywords: Self-perception Scale; Validity; Self-worth; Children.Ao longo de seu desenvolvimento a criança é compelida a relacionar-se efetivamente com o meio em que vive, e o faz pelo desejo de, com sucesso, exercer influência sobre ele. A competência percebida, julgamento expressado pela criança sobre suas habilidades em experiên-cias de conquista, é considerada um importante mediador da motivação infantil, incidindo de maneira decisiva na formação do autoconceito (Harter, 1985(Harter, , 1999. Ao desenvolver-se cognitivamente, a criança passa a fazer distinção entre o conceito de habilidade (capacidade de executar a tarefa com maestria) e o de esforço (energia necessária para desenvolver mestria), estabelecendo relações entre suas percepções e a dificuldade da tarefa e alterando as suas percepções de competência de acordo com as experiências vividas (Harter, 1999;Valentini & Rudisill, 2004).Diferentes critérios são empregados pela criança no julgamento de suas competências. De início predominam critérios da cultura familiar e posteriormente a cultura dos pares elege parâmetros e valores que são incorporados pela criança. Não obstante, a expressão dos próprios julgamentos não necessariamente é precisa. Ao avaliar sua competência, a criança pode se perceber competente em um domínio (cognitivo, social e/ou físico) e evidenciar um desempenho real não condizente com a ...

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The role of factor analysis in the development and evaluation of personality scales

Cited by 1,798 publications

References 123 publications

Efficient identification of mental health problems in refugees in Germany: the Refugee Health Screener

Efficient identification of mental health problems in refugees in Germany: the Refugee Health Screener

Self-concept clarity: Measurement, personality correlates, and cultural boundaries.

Validação brasileira da escala de autopercepção de harter para crianças

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