Psych Pub Date : 2023-09-12 DOI: 10.3390/psych5030065

Alexander Robitzsch

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Editorial to the Special Issue “Feature Papers in Psychometrics and Educational Measurement” 《心理测量学与教育测量专题论文》特刊社论

Psych Pub Date : 2023-09-12 DOI: 10.3390/psych5030066

Alexander Robitzsch

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Evaluating the Effect of Planned Missing Designs in Structural Equation Model Fit Measures 结构方程模型拟合测度中计划缺失设计的效果评价

Psych Pub Date : 2023-09-06 DOI: 10.3390/psych5030064

Paula C. R. Vicente

{"title":"Evaluating the Effect of Planned Missing Designs in Structural Equation Model Fit Measures","authors":"Paula C. R. Vicente","doi":"10.3390/psych5030064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/psych5030064","url":null,"abstract":"In a planned missing design, the nonresponses occur according to the researcher’s will, with the goal of increasing data quality and avoiding overly extensive questionnaires. When adjusting a structural equation model to the data, there are different criteria to evaluate how the theoretical model fits the observed data, with the root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA), standardized root mean square residual (SRMR), comparative fit index (CFI) and Tucker–Lewis index (TLI) being the most common. Here, I explore the effect of the nonresponses due to a specific planned missing design—the three-form design—on the mentioned fit indices when adjusting a structural equation model. A simulation study was conducted with correctly specified model and one model with misspecified correlation between factors. The CFI, TLI and SRMR indices are affected by the nonresponses, particularly with small samples, low factor loadings and numerous observed variables. The existence of nonresponses when considering misspecified models causes unacceptable values for all the four fit indexes under analysis, namely when a strong correlation between factors is considered. The results shown here were performed with the simsem package in R and the full information maximum-likelihood method was used for handling missing data during model fitting.","PeriodicalId":93139,"journal":{"name":"Psych","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47196381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A SAS Macro for Automated Stopping of Markov Chain Monte Carlo Estimation in Bayesian Modeling with PROC MCMC 基于PROC MCMC的贝叶斯建模中自动停止马尔可夫链蒙特卡罗估计的SAS宏

Psych Pub Date : 2023-09-05 DOI: 10.3390/psych5030063

Wolfgang Wagner, Martin Hecht, Steffen Zitzmann

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RMX/PIccc: An Extended Person–Item Map and a Unified IRT Output for eRm, psychotools, ltm, mirt, and TAM RMX/PIccc: eRm、psychotools、ltm、mirt和TAM的扩展的人-项目图和统一的IRT输出

Psych Pub Date : 2023-09-05 DOI: 10.3390/psych5030062

Milica Kabic, Rainer W. Alexandrowicz

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Measurement of Individual Differences in State Empathy and Examination of a Model in Japanese University Students 日本大学生状态共情的个体差异测量及模型检验

Psych Pub Date : 2023-09-04 DOI: 10.3390/psych5030061

Maine Tobari, Atsushi Oshio

{"title":"Measurement of Individual Differences in State Empathy and Examination of a Model in Japanese University Students","authors":"Maine Tobari, Atsushi Oshio","doi":"10.3390/psych5030061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/psych5030061","url":null,"abstract":"The typical state empathy research used perspective-taking instructions and examined the effect of instructions on empathy-related variables. Empathy-arousing processes were generally not measured. The effect of perspective-taking instructions has been questioned recently. Observers could imagine targets’ feelings without such instructions. This study evoked empathy in Japanese undergraduates (N = 157) without instructional procedure, and based on participants’ responses to questionnaires, measured individual differences between antecedent, process, and intrapersonal outcome variables of state empathy, referring to the organizational model and theories of empathy-arousing processes. The purpose of this study was to measure these variables, examine the causal relationship between them using path analysis, and clarify how empathy occurs. In this way, we could suggest through which processes and antecedent factors intrapersonal empathic outcomes are produced. It is probably the first attempt to clarify how empathy occurs using a social psychological study framework and questionnaire method. This research was originally conducted in 2011 based on two similar studies not published internationally, when only some of the variables were used in our analyses. Afterwards, we constructed another analysis method, reanalyzed the data in 2019 and further reanalyzed in 2023 to obtain the final version of the results. Limitations and scientific and practical implications were discussed.","PeriodicalId":93139,"journal":{"name":"Psych","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43836463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Parameter Estimation of KST-IRT Model under Local Dependence 局部依赖下KST-IRT模型的参数估计

Psych Pub Date : 2023-08-22 DOI: 10.3390/psych5030060

Sangbeak Ye, A. Kelava, S. Noventa

{"title":"Parameter Estimation of KST-IRT Model under Local Dependence","authors":"Sangbeak Ye, A. Kelava, S. Noventa","doi":"10.3390/psych5030060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/psych5030060","url":null,"abstract":"A mantra often repeated in the introductory material to psychometrics and Item Response Theory (IRT) is that a Rasch model is a probabilistic version of a Guttman scale. The idea comes from the observation that a sigmoidal item response function provides a probabilistic version of the characteristic function that models an item response in the Guttman scale. It appears, however, more difficult to reconcile the assumption of local independence, which traditionally accompanies the Rasch model, with the item dependence existing in a Guttman scale. In recent work, an alternative probabilistic version of a Guttman scale was proposed, combining Knowledge Space Theory (KST) with IRT modeling, here referred to as KST-IRT. The present work has, therefore, a two-fold aim. Firstly, the estimation of the parameters involved in KST-IRT models is discussed. More in detail, two estimation methods based on the Expectation Maximization (EM) procedure are suggested, i.e., Marginal Maximum Likelihood (MML) and Gibbs sampling, and are compared on the basis of simulation studies. Secondly, for a Guttman scale, the estimates of the KST-IRT models are compared with those of the traditional combination of the Rasch model plus local independence under the interchange of the data generation processes. Results show that the KST-IRT approach might be more effective in capturing local dependence as it appears to be more robust under misspecification of the data generation process, but it comes with the price of an increased number of parameters.","PeriodicalId":93139,"journal":{"name":"Psych","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47688432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Increased Activity in the Prefrontal Cortex Related to Planning during a Handwriting Task 在手写任务中与计划相关的额前皮质活动增加

Psych Pub Date : 2023-08-18 DOI: 10.3390/psych5030059

Akiko Megumi, Jungpil Shin, Yuta Uchida, A. Yasumura

{"title":"Increased Activity in the Prefrontal Cortex Related to Planning during a Handwriting Task","authors":"Akiko Megumi, Jungpil Shin, Yuta Uchida, A. Yasumura","doi":"10.3390/psych5030059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/psych5030059","url":null,"abstract":"We investigated the relationship between the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and executive function during a drawing task. Thirty-three participants using pen tablets provided the data for this task. PFC activity was recorded using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) during a simple zig-zag task and a complex periodic line (PL) pattern task. For each task, there was a trace condition and a prediction condition. The Executive Function Questionnaire (EFQ) was used to examine the association between brain-function measurements and executive function during the task. PFC activity was analyzed in the right, middle, and left regions. Oxygenated hemoglobin values measured with fNIRS were converted to z-values and analyzed as a measure of brain activity. Drawing fluency was measured using the line length. In the PL pattern task, the line length was significantly shorter under the prediction condition than under the trace condition. Activity in the right PFC under the prediction condition was significantly higher than that under the trace condition in the PL pattern task, and the score of the EFQ planning subscale was associated with activity in the right PFC. Activity in the right PFC is important for fluent drawing, suggesting that it is also important during drawing activities involving symbols such as letters.","PeriodicalId":93139,"journal":{"name":"Psych","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49379762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Expanding NAEP and TIMSS Analysis to Include Additional Variables or a New Scoring Model Using the R Package Dire 扩展NAEP和TIMSS分析，以包括额外的变量或使用R软件包的新评分模型

Psych Pub Date : 2023-08-17 DOI: 10.3390/psych5030058

P. Bailey, B. Webb

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Obesity and Life History: The Hypothesis of Psychological Phenotypes 肥胖与生活史:心理表型的假设

Psych Pub Date : 2023-08-14 DOI: 10.3390/psych5030057

A. Rizzo, A. Sitibondo

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