BACKGROUND This analysis is based on a survey questionnaire designed to describe medical educators' views of psychiatry and psychiatrists. Our goals in this paper were to assess the psychometric properties of the survey questions by (a) using exploratory factor analysis to identify the basic factor structure underlying 37 survey items; (b) testing the resulting factor structure using confirmato...

Several studies have attempted to understand the dimensions of psychiatric symptoms in manic episodes, but only a few have been able to model the latent structure of mania in bipolar disorder patients using confirmatory factor analysis. The objective of the present study was to search for the best model of the symptomatology of hospitalized manic patients. To achieve this goal, 117 manic inpati...

Title of Thesis: QUANTIFYING BARRIERS TO MEDITATION AS A HEALTH BEHAVIOR: EXPLORATORY AND CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS OF THE DETERMINANTS OF MEDITATION PRACTICE INVENTORY Carly Hunt Rietschel, Master of Arts, 2016 Thesis Directed By: Professor Mary Ann Hoffman, PhD Department of Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education Although the benefits of mindfulness meditation practices have b...

Objectives: This article presents the validation of the 28-item Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM-28) among two Canadian samples of youth with complex needs. Method: The CYRM-28 was administered to two groups of concurrent service using youth in Atlantic Canada (n1 1⁄4 497; n2 1⁄4 410) allowing for use of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Results: Reproducibility agreement is...

In this article, we provide guidance for substantive researchers on the use of structural equation modeling in practice for theory testing and development. We present a comprehensive, two-step modeling approach that employs a series of nested models and sequential chi-square difference tests. We discuss the comparative advantages of this approach over a one-step approach. Considerations in spec...

This study investigated the factor structure of the 26-item Midlife Development Inventory (MIDI) Personality Scale in a sample of 2,720 Americans. It was found that whereas confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) did not provide an acceptable fit to the data, exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) provided an acceptable fit. The results of ESEM revealed that the a priori five-factor structu...