We sought to determine the applicability and structural equivalence of a personality instrument developed in western, educated, industrialised, rich democratic (WEIRD) contexts non-WEIRD environments. The data for this study came from interviews conducted during sixth wave World Values Survey Netherlands (N = 1902), Germany 2046), Rwanda 1527), South Africa 3531). exploratory confirmatory facto...

This multi-study investigation identified and confirmed the factor structure of ideal friendship standards. Study 1 (N = 307) conducted an exploratory factor analysis on 30 existing subscales of friendship expectations. Study 2 (N = 401) reduced 181 items from past subscales and singleitem measures of friendship expectations to 51 items measuring six factors. Study 3 (N = 668) used an internati...

The Sexual Excitation Sexual/Inhibition Inventory for Women and Men (SESII-W/M) and the Sexual Excitation Scales/Sexual Inhibition Scales short form (SIS/SES-SF) are two self-report questionnaires for assessing sexual excitation (SE) and sexual inhibition (SI). According to the dual control model of sexual response, SE and SI differ between individuals and influence the occurrence of sexual aro...

NEO instruments are widely used to assess Big Five personality factors, but confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) conducted at the item level do not support their a priori structure due, in part, to the overly restrictive CFA assumptions. We demonstrate that exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM), an integration of CFA and exploratory factor analysis (EFA), overcomes these problems with ...

The factorial invariance of responses by preadolescent males and females to a multidimensional self-concept instrument was examined for responses to the Self Description Questionnaire (SDQ). Sets of responses by 500 males and by 500 females were each randomly divided in half to form four groups (M1, M2, Fl, and F2). The factorial invariance of an a priori structure demonstrated the replicabilit...

The study was designed to estimate the psychometric properties of Hastings and Brown's (2002a) Difficult Behavior Self-efficacy Scale. Participants were two samples of physical educators teaching in Korea (n=229) and the United States (U.S.; n=139). An initial translation of the questionnaire to Korean and pilot study were conducted along with the larger study using a confirmatory factor analys...

The aim of this paper was to validate the factor structure and gender-related measurement invariance short form Inventory Socially Supportive Behaviors (ISSB). study sample consisted 710 undergraduate students aged 19–55 years. A confirmatory analysis original design confirmed a three-factor with an acceptable goodness fit (CFI = 0.910, TLI 0.894, RMSEA 0.066) validity; however, some indices hi...

The current study assessed the measurement equivalence of the Wong & Law Emotional Intelligence Scale (WLEIS) with three groups of Chinese university students. Two research sessions were conducted—one in Beijing, China with university students (N = 680), and the other in Calgary, Canada where two groups of Chinese students were administered the WLEIS in either Chinese (N = 151) or English (N = ...