Scale validation in applied health research: Tutorial for a 6-step R-based psychometrics protocol

AL Dima - Health psychology and behavioral medicine, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Applied health science research commonly measures concepts via multiple-
item tools (scales), such as self-reported questionnaires or observation checklists. They are …

A paradigm shift from “human writing” to “machine generation” in personality test development: An application of state-of-the-art natural language processing

P Lee, S Fyffe, M Son, Z Jia, Z Yao - Journal of Business and Psychology, 2023 - Springer
Natural language processing (NLP) techniques have become increasingly popular in areas
of psychological assessment. Recently, researchers have sought to use NLP techniques for …

Adaptation of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale: Its association with psychological distress and life satisfaction in Turkey

B Satici, E Gocet-Tekin, ME Deniz, SA Satici - International journal of …, 2021 - Springer
The world is currently experiencing a pandemic of an infectious disease called COVID-19
which has drawn global intensive attention. While global attention is largely focusing on the …

Why ordinal variables can (almost) always be treated as continuous variables: Clarifying assumptions of robust continuous and ordinal factor analysis estimation …

A Robitzsch - Frontiers in education, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The analysis of factor structures is one of the most critical psychometric applications.
Frequently, variables (ie, items or indicators) resulting from questionnaires using ordinal …

Bayesian item response modeling in R with brms and Stan

PC Bürkner - Journal of statistical software, 2021 - jstatsoft.org
Item response theory (IRT) is widely applied in the human sciences to model persons'
responses on a set of items measuring one or more latent constructs. While several R …

[HTML][HTML] A practical approach to measuring user engagement with the refined user engagement scale (UES) and new UES short form

HL O'Brien, P Cairns, M Hall - International Journal of Human-Computer …, 2018 - Elsevier
User engagement (UE) and its measurement have been of increasing interest in human-
computer interaction (HCI). The User Engagement Scale (UES) is one tool developed to …

COVID-19 Learning loss and recovery: Panel data evidence from India

A Singh, M Romero, K Muralidharan - Journal of Human Resources, 2024 - jhr.uwpress.org
We use a panel survey of~ 19,000 primary-school-aged children in rural Tamil Nadu to study
'learning loss' after COVID-19-induced school closures, and the pace of recovery after …

When the whole is greater than the sum of its parts: On the conceptualization and measurement of populist attitudes and other multidimensional constructs

A Wuttke, C Schimpf, H Schoen - American Political Science Review, 2020 - cambridge.org
Multidimensional concepts are non-compensatory when higher values on one component
cannot offset lower values on another. Thinking of the components of a multidimensional …

The very efficient assessment of need for cognition: Develo** a six-item version

G Lins de Holanda Coelho, P HP Hanel… - …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The need for cognition refers to people's tendency to engage in and enjoy thinking and has
become influential across social and medical sciences. Using three samples from the United …

Controlling for response biases in self-report scales: Forced-choice vs. psychometric modeling of Likert items

RS Kreitchmann, FJ Abad, V Ponsoda… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
One important problem in the measurement of non-cognitive characteristics such as
personality traits and attitudes is that it has traditionally been made through Likert scales …