Aim The threats of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have caused fears worldwide. Fear COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) was recently developed to assess the fear COVID-19. Although many studies found that FCV-19S is psychometrically sound, it unclear whether invariant across countries. present study aimed examine measurement invariance eleven Design Cross-sectional study. Methods Using data col...

Objective: The aim of the present study was the validation of the Resilience Scale 5 (RS-5) developed by Von Eisenhart Rothe and colleagues [1] in the general population, specifically younger population groups, as well as the establishment of norm values. That included the analysis of psychometric properties such as item and scale characteristics, factor structure, validity towards related psyc...

Title of Dissertation: IRT VS. FACTOR ANALYSIS APPROACHES IN ANALYZING MULTIGROUP MULTIDIMENSIONAL BINARY DATA: THE EFFECT OF STRUCTURAL ORTHOGONALITY, AND THE EQUIVALENCE IN TEST STRUCTURE, ITEM DIFFICULTY, & EXAMINEE GROUPS Peng Lin, Doctor of Philosophy, 2008 Directed By: Professor Robert W. Lissitz Department of Measurement, Statistics and Evaluation The purpose of this study was to investi...

Measurement invariance of the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) was examined in probability samples of adults 50-79 years of age living in the United States, England, and Japan. Confirmatory factor analysis modeling was used to test for multigroup measurement invariance of a single-factor structure of the SWLS. Results support a single-factor structure of the SWLS across the 3 countries, with...

This paper tests the structure and the predictors of two psychological experiences of technostress associated with the use of information and communication technologies (ICT), i.e., technostrain (users report feelings of anxiety, fatigue, scepticism and inefficacy beliefs related to the use of technologies) and technoaddiction (users feel bad due to an excessive and compulsive use of these tech...