Psychometric Evidence of a Multidimensional Measure of Prosocial Behaviors for Spanish Adolescents

Psychometric Characteristics of Multidimensional Measure of Nurses’ Personal Resilience

Background and Aims: Nurses face too much stressors as work-rest cycle problems, overload responsibility, lack of vacation time and painful experiences of patients; therefore, resiliency can help them to appropriate and efficient cope with these stressors. But, there is no brief and practical scale to assess psychological resiliency among nurses in Iran. So, the aim of the present study was to ...

The Development of a Measure of Prosocial Behaviors for Late Adolescents

The correlates and structure of prosocial behaviors in late adolescents were examined using a newly constructed, multidimensional measure. In Study 1, 249 college students (145 women; M age = 19.9 years) were administered the Prosocial Tendencies Measure (PTM) which assesses 6 types of prosocial behaviors: altruistic, compliant, emotional, dire, public, and anonymous. Measures of sympathy, pers...

investigating the feasibility of a proposed model for geometric design of deployable arch structures

deployable scissor type structures are composed of the so-called scissor-like elements (sles), which are connected to each other at an intermediate point through a pivotal connection and allow them to be folded into a compact bundle for storage or transport. several sles are connected to each other in order to form units with regular polygonal plan views. the sides and radii of the polygons are...

Psychometric Properties of Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (MPS)

Objective: In this study, psychometric qualities of multidimensional perfectionism scale (MPS) were evaluated. Methods: Persian version of perfectionism inventory was completed by 48 adults (24 females and 24 males). The sample was selected by cluster random sampling from Sarcheshmeh adult inhabitants. Reliability of the scale was assessed by calculating Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Then 26...

Sociocognitive and Behavioral Correlates of a Measure of Prosocial Tendencies for Adolescents