Hateful Emotional Responses Scale (HatERS): Development and Initial Evaluation

SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT SCALE Development and Initial Validation With Urban Elementary School Students

The Social-Emotional and Character Development Scale (SECDS) is intended as a measnre of social-emotional skills and character for elementary school-age children. This study investigated the measure's psychometric properties using data collected over 5 waves for a cohort of students followed from Grades 3 to 5 in 14 nrban elementary schools (NRange ~ 500 to 593). Confirmatory factor analysis in...

The Development and Initial Validation of the Perinatal Mental Health Awareness Scale in Student Midwives

Background & aim: Perinatal mental health problems have been demonstrated to impact upon maternal, and fetal/child outcomes. Despite the global evidence and a policy-driven responsibility for identification of these problems, research demonstrates that student midwives/midwives lack knowledge and confidence to assess, identify, and manage them. A similar context is evident for learning disabili...

MojiTalk: Generating Emotional Responses at Scale

Generating emotional language is a key step towards building empathetic natural language processing agents. However, a major challenge for this line of research is the lack of large-scale labeled training data, and previous studies are limited to only small sets of human annotated sentiment labels. Additionally, explicitly controlling the emotion and sentiment of generated text is also difficul...

Job apathy: Scale development and initial validation

Development and Validation of Teacher Emotional Support Scale: a structural equation modeling approach

Reviewing the literature indicated that no validated model was found that examine the extent to which teachers support their students emotionally in EFL classrooms. Therefore the present study elaborated on this issue through developing and validating a teacher emotional support scale in an Iranian English foreign language context. Main components of the scale have been specified based on Hamre...