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Measuring dispositional optimism in patients with chronic heart failure and their healthcare providers: The validity of the Life Orientation Test-Rev…

2017

Patrizia Steca,1 Dario Monzani,1 Antonia Pierobon,2 Giulia Avvenuti,2 Andrea Greco,1 Anna Giardini2 1Department of Psychology, University of Milano – Bicocca, Milan, 2Psychology Unit, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri Spa SB, IRCCS Montescano, Montescano, Italy Abstract: The Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R) measures dispositional optimism (DO) – an individual difference promoting physical and psychological well-being in healthy adults (HAs) as well as in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) and healthcare providers (HPs). Controversy has arisen regarding the dimensionality of the LOT-R. Whereas DO was originally defined as a one-dimensional construct, empiri…

Settore M-PSI/01 - Psicologia Generalemedicine.medical_specialtyvalidityMedicine (miscellaneous)Dispositional optimismLife Orientation Test-Revised050109 social psychology050105 experimental psychologymedicine0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesIn patientMeasurement invariancecardiovascular diseasesPsychiatryPharmacology Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (miscellaneous)Depression (differential diagnoses)Original ResearchLife Orientation Test-Revised; dispositional optimism; validity; measurement equivalence; chronic heart failurelcsh:R5-920business.industryHealth Policy05 social sciencesdispositional optimismLife Orientation Test – Revisedmedicine.diseaseDifferential item functioningConfirmatory factor analysishumanitieschronic heart failurePatient Preference and AdherenceHeart failureAnxietymedicine.symptomlcsh:Medicine (General)businessmeasurement equivalenceSocial Sciences (miscellaneous)Clinical psychology
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Testing invariance between web and paper students satisfaction surveys. A case study

2017

[EN] Purpose: This paper studied the measurement invariance (MI) across web-based and paper-based surveys to evidence if both techniques of data collection can be regarded as equivalent. Design/methodology: We develop a multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA) with Maximum Likelihood Estimation to asses measurement invariance of the Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS) adapted to teaching, with data collected from paper and web surveys. Sample from paper surveys was constituted by 294 student of a Spanish public university in the academic years 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10. Internet surveys were administered through an open source survey application called Lime Survey. We received 241 complet…

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementStrategy and ManagementTeaching methodESTADISTICA E INVESTIGACION OPERATIVAlcsh:ASample (statistics)Surveys010501 environmental sciencesEnquestes01 natural sciencesEducationMeasurement equivalenceMeasurement equivalence Students’ satisfaction and motivation Job Diagnostic Survey Multigroup confirmatory analysis Higher education Active methodologiesManagement of Technology and InnovationAccounting0502 economics and business:Ensenyament i aprenentatge::Ensenyament universitari [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC]Symmetry (Mathematics)Mathematics educationEconometricsActive methodologiesMeasurement invarianceHigher educationStudents satisfaction and motivationJob Diagnostic SurveyBusiness and International ManagementStudents’ satisfaction and motivationReliability (statistics)0105 earth and related environmental sciencesFactor analysisData collection05 social sciences:Matemàtiques i estadística [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC]Educational surveysVariance (accounting)Confirmatory factor analysisEnquestes educativesSimetria (Matemàtica)ORGANIZACION DE EMPRESASMultigroup confirmatory analysislcsh:General WorksPsychology050203 business & management
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The measurement invariance of Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS) across three university student groups

2016

Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to apply a multigroup confirmatory analysis to examine the measurement invariance (MI) of the adapted version of the Job Diagnosis Survey (JDS) as a measurement tool that analyses the relationship between the features of teaching methodologies with university students’ motivation and satisfaction across data collected on different degrees and academic years. Design/methodology/approach: Confirmatory factor analysis was carried out using a multigroup structural equation model, using the program EQS 6.1 to test the invariance of the adapted version of JDS in a sample constituted by 535 student of a Spanish public university. The assessment of invaria…

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