Self-report inventories enable efficient assessment of mental attributes in large representative surveys. However, an inventory can be administered in several ways whose equivalence is largely untested. In the present study, we administered thirteen psychological questionnaires assessing positive and negative aspects of mental health. The questionnaires were administered by four different data ...

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 = ...

Rigid gauge invariance comprises the symmetry content for physical quantities in a local gauge theory. Its derivation form BRS invariance is thus crucial for determining the physical consequences of the symmetry. ∗ To appear in the“Proceedings of the XXIst Conference on Group Theor. Methods in Physics, Goslar, Juli 1996”. supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

component of applying a justice principle. Conversely, most emic research activity has focused on the more concrete component of construing the deservingness of the people involved. Quite likely, these biases of etic and emic perspectives are inherent ones. The tendency of etic perspective research to omit all but the most abstract components of a cognitive process is, in fact, rooted in the ve...

Sequential products of quantum measurements are defined and studied. Two types of measurement equivalence are considered and their relationships with compatibility and the sequential product are discussed. It is shown that a measurement A is sharp if and only if A is equivalent to the sequential product of A with itself. Refinements of measurements are defined and it is shown that they produce ...

Objective: Based on Elliot’s revised achievement goal framework [Elliot and McGregor (2001). A 2 2 achievement goal framework. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 501–519], the present study tested the gender invariance of the multiple achievement goal measurement model as well as the hypothesized antecedents and consequences of the multiple achievement goals embedded in a structu...

Two studies investigated the validity of computer self-efficacy and computer anxiety scales when administered to an Internet sample. In the first study, it was found that existing measures of computer self-efficacy and anxiety, originally developed through paper-and-pencil methods with more traditional samples, were not adequately equivalent when administered to a sample that was recruited and ...

Web surveys have become a very important way of empirical research. The rise of social media provides a new platform for web surveys. Investigators can collect data based on different social media platforms to get more respondents of higher external validity at a lower cost. However, there is no domestic expert and scholar to conduct related researches on web surveys based on social media. This...