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Internal Migration: Understanding Parent–Child Differences in Educational Expectations
Although educational expectations of parents and children are associated with educational investments and attainment, children and parent...
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Old Ribbons, New Bows: The Historical Development of Internal Improvement Processes in Irish Schools
This chapter traces key external factors that influenced school improvement over the past century, and the climate that led to an increased focus on...
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Internal Migration and Rural Inequalities in India
The study examines the effects of seasonal and permanent migration on rural inequalities in India. We apply the counterfactual method to estimate...
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Translation and Psychometric Evaluation of the University of Jyvaskyla Active Aging Scale (UJACAS) for Use in Sweden
The objectives were to translate the University of Jyvaskyla Active Aging Scale (UJACAS) to Swedish, to establish semantic equivalence and evaluate...
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eComplex: validity and reliability of rubric for assessing reasoning for complexity competency
In the absence of available instruments that measure reasoning-for-complexity competency in higher education, we designed a rubric to measure...
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The Situational Meaning in Life Evaluation (SMILE): Development and Validation Studies
The present multi-study work presents a new self-report measure of meaning in life in the context of situational life experiences. Study 1 presents...
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Comparing responses from a paper-based survey with a web-based survey in environmental criminology
This article aims to compare the pattern of responses obtained by a web-based and a paper-based survey used to investigate the transit safety of...
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Psychometric properties of the World Health Organization WHOQOL-AGE Scale in Singapore
WHOQOL-AGE is a promising quality of life (QOL) tool that has not been fully validated in Asia. The present study aimed to verify its factor...
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Validation of a brief version of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-16) with an older Norwegian population
Emotion regulation is proposed to have a salient role in optimal aging. However, currently used measures of emotion regulation have not been...
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Spirituality in the Context of Well-being. Evaluation of the Psychometric Properties and Added Value of the Spiritual Attitude and Involvement List Short Form (SAIL-SF)
There is growing evidence that spiritual well-being is positively associated with adaptive co** and health. The Spiritual Attitude and Involvement...
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Translation and validation of the Malay version of the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire in a Malaysian setting
The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (OHQ) was developed as a tool to measure happiness. The original English version of the OHQ has been previously...
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Examining the Consistency of Folk Identifications of Trees to Implement Community-Based Biodiversity Monitoring
Several factors may compromise plant identifications provided by local informants, affecting the basis for incorporating local ecological knowledge...
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Personal Social Capital in Organizations: A New Scale to Assess Internal and External Personal Social Capital in Organizations
Social Capital (SC) is a comprehensive concept that refers to the benefits obtained from social connections. Personal SC is the basic level of SC in...
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Multidimensional Measure of Well-Being, Translation, Factor Structure, Measurement Invariance, Reliability and Validity of the PERMA-Profiler in Spain
The main objective of this study is to examine the psychometric properties of the PERMA-Profiler in a Spanish context. The PERMA-Profiler, developed...
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The Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for the Construction of the Family Affluence Scale: Findings from 16 Countries
The Family Affluence Scale (FAS) is a widely used and validated instrument to measure adolescents’ socioeconomic status (SES). It is plausible that...
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Development and Initial Validation of Scales for Coming Out Vigilance and Positive Coming Out Responses
Coming out involves sexual and gender minorities (SGMs) disclosing their identity to others, and is often related to improved health, well-being, and...
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Social Participation of Independent Older Adults: Analysis of the Items of the LIFE-H 3.1-Brazil
To verify the factor structure of the LIFE-H 3.1-Brasil in a sample of independent older adults, and to analyze their responses to the instrument....
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Development of an Implicit Well-Being Measure for Youths Using the Implicit Association Test
Given the important limitations of direct (explicit) measures in psychological research with children, various scholars have focused on develo**...
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Evaluating the St. George’s respiratory questionnaire in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a systematic review with meta-analysis of psychometric properties using COSMIN
BackgroundThe St. George’s Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) and its idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) version (SGRQ-I) are widely used to assess...
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Validation of the Short‐Form 36 Health Survey (SF‐36) for use in Mexican older persons
The Short Form 36 (SF-36) Health Survey has been widely used and has proven to be a valid and reliable scale for assessing health-related quality of...