this study was carried out to determine the psychometric properties of templer death anxiety scale (das), a tool, designed to assess the death anxiety. our sample comprised 106 nurses who were selected from two hospitals in tehran, iran, using a convenience sampling method and were then assessed using the templer death anxiety scale (das), reasons for death fear scale (rdfs), death obsession sc...

1. the decomposition of obtained scores into true and error components (20, 32, 66, 81, 90); 2. the duality of psychophysics and psychometrics (16, 72, 73, 88, 91); 3. the notion of unidimensionality (33, 34, 51, 68); 4. the conception of test validity as theoretical equivalence, usually called construct validity (21); 5. the scaling ideas derived from various item characteristic curve models (...

We describe an important class of semideenite programming problems that has received scant attention in the optimization community. These problems are derived from considerations in distance geometry and multidimensional scaling and therefore arise in a variety of disciplines, e.g. computational chemistry and psychometrics. In most applications, the feasible positive semideenite matrices are re...

To request a copy of the Ex-SRES instrument, a one-page ummary of its psychometrics and scoring syntax, please send a elf-addressed envelope with return postage to the correspondng author. eprint requests: Amy H. T. Davis, RN, PhD, Assistant Professor, ollege of Nursing, University of Arizona, 1305 N. Martin, Tucson, Z 85721-0203. 147-9563/$ – see front matter opyright © 2007 by Mosby, Inc. i 1...

In the context of the development of prototypic assessment instruments in the areas of cognition, personality, and adaptive functioning, the issues of standardization, norming procedures, and the important psychometrics of test reliability and validity are evaluated critically. Criteria, guidelines, and simple rules of thumb are provided to assist the clinician faced with the challenge of choos...

One of the major contributions of Howard Gardner’s book, Frames of Mind containing the theory of multiple intelligences was an important link between two major approaches to psychology, which were then and for the most part still are, quite separate. First, was an approach to the common mental processes and behavior of human beings and second, was the psychometrics of individual differences imp...