Scale development and validation are critical to much of the work in the health, social, and
behavioral sciences. However, the constellation of techniques required for scale …

Researchers in the career domain have embraced the concept of career adaptability as
denoted by a rapid growth in the number of published articles in recent years. Career …

The number of online professional development (PD) activities for teachers has increased
over the past decade. While there is evidence on characteristics of effective face-to-face PD …

This is a concise, easy to use, step-by-step guide for applied researchers conducting
exploratory factor analysis (EFA) using SPSS. In this book, Dr. Watkins systematically …

Objectives The purpose of this research was to create two state measures of self-
compassion based on the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS): an 18-item State Self-Compassion …

The COVID-19 pandemic and its social and economic consequences have had adverse
impacts on physical and mental health worldwide and exposed all segments of the …

Many negatively connoted personality traits (often termed “dark traits”) have been introduced
to account for ethically, morally, and socially questionable behavior. Herein, we provide a …

Although vaccines are among the most effective interventions used in fighting diseases,
vaccination readiness varies substantially among individuals. Vaccination readiness is …

Based on recent psychometric developments, this paper presents a conceptual and practical
guide for estimating internal consistency reliability of measures obtained as item sum or …

This study examined the factor structure of the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) using
secondary data drawn from 20 samples (N= 11,685)—7 English and 13 non-English …