Mengyang Cao

TL;DR: In this paper, an overview and guide to implementing item response theory measurement equivalence (IRT) or differential item functioning (DIF) analysis is provided, as well as an overview of the requirements for implementing IRT and DIF.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of studies comparing FC personality measure scores between low-stakes and (both simulated and actual) high-stakes situations suggests that the overall score inflation effect size for FC personality measures is 0.06.

TL;DR: Two complementary reviews of computational linguistics and organizational text mining research are conducted to provide empirically grounded text preprocessing decision-making recommendations that account for the type of text mining conducted, the research question under investigation, and the data set’s characteristics.

TL;DR: It was found that a 6-factor bifactor structure generally held for the reduced set of unidimensional character strength items; these dimensions were justice, temperance, courage, wisdom, transcendence, humanity, and an overarching general factor that is best described as dispositional positivity.

TL;DR: The psychometric properties of 3 frequently administered emotional intelligence scales, developed on the basis of different theoretical frameworks, are investigated and the nature of the EI construct should be considered during the process of scale development.