Search results for "assessment instrument"

Positive Psychological Assessment in Latin America

2014

This chapter describes the development and adaptation of instruments to assess Positive Psychology’s constructs in Latin America. Results from the conducted literature review are presented according to PP pillars, as proposed by Seligman: positive emotions, positive traits, positive institutions and positive relationships. The criteria used to analyze the assessment instruments found included country’s contribution, number of tests locally developed vs adapted tests, psychometric properties of assessment instruments and theoretical models in which tests are grounded.

3-4-vuotiaiden päiväkotilasten sosioemotionaalisten taitojen ilmeneminen ja arviointi liikunnassa

2014

Cross-Cultural Validation of Assessment Instruments Used in Career Counselling and Guidance in the Nordic countries

2020

The cross-cultural application and research on assessment instruments used in career counselling and guidance in the Nordic countries is discussed. Three examples where etic and emic approaches to establish the cross-cultural validity of American instruments in Finland and Iceland are described. These are the Career Thoughts Inventory, vocational interest inventories and a measure of career adaptability. These efforts show that contextual factors influence the responses to imported measures. Emic approaches are needed to fully test the applicability of assessment instruments as well as theoretical constructs developed in other cultures, but used in career counselling in the Nordic countries…

Social cognition scale (SCS): A newly developed assessment instrument

2007

Strategien und Instrumente der Veränderungsmessung

2014

Der Erfassung von Veränderungen kommt in der Klinischen Psychologie wie Psychiatrie eine wichtige Funktion zu, speziell der Erfassung therapieinduzierter Veränderungen. Dies betrifft sowohl die Psychotherapie als auch Psychopharmakotherapie. Speziell im Zusammenhang mit einer therapie-begleitenden Diagnostik ist dies von großer Bedeutung. In der klinischen Praxis spiegelt sich dies jedoch nur bedingt wider. Im Beitrag wird ein Überblick gegeben zu den verschiedenen Möglichkeiten der Erfassung und Bewertung von Veränderungen mittels psychometrischer Verfahren. Darüber hinaus werden Kriterien aufgezeigt, die derartige Instrumente erfüllen müssen. Der Schwerpunkt des Artikels liegt auf einer …

Resilience and the Aging Process: Assessment Tools and Needs

2015

Abstract Successful resilience is a variable often related to an optimal aging process and that might have a role on education. However, literature is rather limited when dealing with assessment instruments for the elderly in the Spanish language. The objective of this work is to examine the Brief Resilient Coping Scale (Sinclair &Wallston, 2004), a four item likert scale, in the Spanish elderly. This scale was administrated to a sample of 920 elderly Spanish participants, and the data set analysed in terms of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and internal consistency. The scale demonstrated good psychometric properties. Furthermore, the homogeneity indices were higher than in th…

409 Using rai-hc assessment instrument to classify home care clients in Finland based on fire emergency evacuation capacity

2016

Background When an uncontrollable fire is detected in a building there may be a 2–3 minutes window for the occupants to move to safety. Poor physical function and cognition may become critical factors in an evacuation situation. In this study a novel functional scale measuring emergency evacuation capacity of home care clients is presented. Methods A fire security expert visited about 250 home care clients assessing their evacuation capacities. For the evacuation capacity three categories were used: 1) is able to evacuate; 2) may be able; 3) unable to evacuate. This data was linked to comprehensive assessments of clients functional and health status performed by home care nurses using the i…

An Examination of the Structure of the Career Decision Self-Efficacy Scale (Short Form) Among Italian High School Students

2013

This study aims to evaluate the factor structure of Career Decision Self-Efficacy scale-short form in a sample of Italian high school adolescents. confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to test the degree to which a one-factor structure and a five-factor structure provided the best fit. In view of available research the five-factor structure was expected to provide the best fit. Moreover, factorial invariance in males and females was tested. It was expected to be invariant across groups. As expected the five-factor structure showed a better fit than the one-factor model and the factorial invariance resulted invariant across boys and girls.

Comparative Study of the Perceived Quality of Life of Patients in Treatment for Cocaine and Heroin Dependence in Spain: Differences by Gender and Tim…

2014

This is a cross-sectional study in which we compared the perceived quality of life (QoL) of patients receiving outpatient treatment for cocaine (n = 727) and heroin dependence (n = 469), by analyzing differences by gender and time in treatment. Participants were recruited from addictive behavior centers in Spain in 2004. The World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment Instrument (WHOQOL-Bref) was used as a measure. Analysis of covariance and multivariate linear regression were used. This study shows the relevance of considering the role of gender in QoL studies, and the need to evaluate the effectiveness of treatment in the improvement of QoL. Limitations of the study were noted.

The psychometric properties of the italian version of the organizational culture assessment instrument (OCAI)

2016

The Competing Values Framework (CVF) has been widely used in organizational research to assess organizational culture. The best-known instrument derived from CVF model, the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI), which measures organizational culture according to four dimensions, is generally presented as valid and reliable. However, only few studies have been conducted for the purpose of validation considering both its ipsative and Likert version; also, this instrument has never been adapted to the Italian context. We used exploratory and confirmatory analyses to examine the underlying structure of data from an Italian adaptation of the OCAI. In the first study, we performed a…