This review summarizes the current state of the art of statistical and (survey) methodological
research on measurement (non) invariance, which is considered a core challenge for the …

We review the application and reporting of exploratory factor analysis (EFA) in management.
First, we integrate recommendations from relevant reviews and simulation studies to provide …

Moral foundations theory has been a generative framework in moral psychology in the last 2
decades. Here, we revisit the theory and develop a new measurement tool, the Moral …

Discriminant validity was originally presented as a set of empirical criteria that can be
assessed from multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) matrices. Because datasets used by applied …

This commentary provides a brief mathematical review of exploratory factor analysis, the
common factor model, and principal components analysis. Details and recommendations …

Psychological research often relies on Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA). As the outcome of
the analysis highly depends on the chosen settings, there is a strong need for guidelines in …

Critics of positive psychology have questioned the validity of positive psychological
assessment measures (PPAMs), which negatively affects the credibility and public …

This chapter focuses on Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling (ESEM), incorporating
bifactor‐ESEM, which represent an overarching data analytic framework in which classical …

This article presents a measure of compassion for others called the Compassion Scale (CS),
which is based on Neff's theoretical model of self-compassion. Compassion was …

Authoritarianism has been the subject of scientific inquiry for nearly a century, yet the vast
majority of authoritarianism research has focused on right-wing authoritarianism. In the …