How Performing PCA and CFA on the Same Data Equals Trouble
Marjolein Fokkema,Samuel Greiff +1 more
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This article is published in European Journal of Psychological Assessment.The article was published on 2017-12-11 and is currently open access. It has received 136 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Principal component analysis & Exploratory factor analysis.read more
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Translation and validation of body image instruments: Challenges, good practice guidelines, and reporting recommendations for test adaptation.
Viren Swami,David Barron +1 more
TL;DR: An operational framework for conducting effective test adaptation of existing measurement tools is offered and good-practice guidelines for instrument translation and effective strategies for achieving semantic equivalence of translated instruments are suggested.
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The Very Efficient Assessment of Need for Cognition: Developing a Six-Item Version
TL;DR: The need for cognition refers to people's tendency to engage in and enjoy thinking and has become influential across social and medical sciences as discussed by the authors, and the NCS-6 is a short version of the Need for Cognition Scale (NCS-18).
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Jamovi: An Easy to Use Statistical Software for the Social Scientists
Murat Doğan Şahin,Eren Can Aybek +1 more
TL;DR: The R based interface and the integrated development environment are introduced, the core functions of Jamovi are presented, the installation for GNU7Linux, Windows, and MacOS is explained and screenshots of frequently conducted statistical analyses are provided.
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Measuring Women's Empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analyses of the Demographic and Health Surveys
Ibitola O. Asaolu,Halimatou Alaofè,Jayleen K. L. Gunn,Akosua Adu,Amanda J. Monroy,John E. Ehiri,Mary H. Hayden,Kacey C. Ernst +7 more
TL;DR: This first study to identify domains of empowerment from a widely available data source, Demographic and Health Surveys, across multiple regions in SSA provides a validated measure of women's empowerment for researchers and other stakeholders in health and development.
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Towards a comprehensive assessment of school absenteeism: development and initial validation of the inventory of school attendance problems.
TL;DR: Positive associations between most of the scales and the extent of school absenteeism were obtained and support the usefulness of the ISAP for a comprehensive assessment of SAPs in clinical settings.
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What you see may not be what you get: a brief, nontechnical introduction to overfitting in regression-type models.
TL;DR: The notion of overfitting is presented in terms of asking too much from the available data, and three common practices—automated variable selection, pretesting of candidate predictors, and dichotomization of continuous variables—are shown to pose a considerable risk for spurious findings in models.
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Choosing Prediction Over Explanation in Psychology: Lessons From Machine Learning:
Tal Yarkoni,Jacob Westfall +1 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that principles and techniques from the field of machine learning can help psychology become a more predictive science and an increased focus on prediction, rather than explanation, can ultimately lead to greater understanding of behavior.