Testing the convergent and discriminant validity of the Systemic Therapy Inventory of Change Initial scales

Zinbarg, Richard E.; Pinsof, William M.; Quirk, Kelley; Kendall, Ashley D.; Goldsmith, Jacob Z.; Hardy, Nathan R.; He, Yaliu; Sabey, Allen K.; Latta, Tara

doi:10.1080/10503307.2017.1325022

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“…Because this study is cross-sectional by making use of data before the first session only, the intersession data were not included. STIC has good internal reliability (Pinsof et al, 2009;Zinbarg et al, 2018;Zahl-Olsen et al, in review) with a Cronbach's alpha as high as 0.94 for the different subscales. The STIC consists of several subscales that further contain factors and items, and some of these address the topic for this study.…”

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confidence: 99%

Physical Couple and Family Violence Among Clients Seeking Therapy: Identifiers and Predictors

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Introduction: Couple violence (CV) affects many, and the consequences of those actions are grave, not only for the individual suffering at the hand of the perpetrator but also for the other persons in the family. Violence often happens among more than just the adults within one family. Even if CV has been thoroughly investigated in the general population very few studies have investigated this objective on a clinical sample, and none of these have included family violence. Aim: This article identifies and describes the group of clients that have issues of physical couple and family violence. It analyses a model that can help to discover physical violence and help therapists to assess what actions to take in therapy to prevent further physical violence. Methodology: Descriptive analysis, t-tests, and structural equation modeling (SEM) are used on a sample of clients receiving couple and family therapy (CFT) in Norway (N = 830). Family violence is modeled by the partner's expectations toward each other, levels of anger, sexual satisfaction, and self-control. Results: One-in-five clients experienced physical CV in their current relationship and one-in-four experienced physical family violence. The group of clients who experienced CV differed from those without such experiences in having lower income, more prior experience with psychotherapy, more experience with alcohol abuse in childhood, and far more physical family violence in their current family. Our model predicting physical couple and family violence explained as much as 53% of family violence and had three positive, significant predictors (expectation, anger, and sexual satisfaction) and one, significant negative predictor (self-control). Somewhat unexpected, sexual satisfaction was a positive, and not a negative, predictor of violence. Conclusion: Our study identified one-in-four clients in CFT experience physical CV. Unreasonable expectation from one partner toward the other, anger and sexual satisfaction were positive predictors of physical violence, while self-control was found to be a negative predictor of physical violence. Implications for therapeutic work and the prevention of physical violence are discussed.

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confidence: 99%

Physical Couple and Family Violence Among Clients Seeking Therapy: Identifiers and Predictors

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“…Nonetheless, high correlations between SDT-based subscales are not exceptional, especially for correlations between IM and IDEN, which are theoretically associated (e.g., Gagné et al, 2010; Tremblay et al, 2009). Scholars suggest that factorial correlations below .85 can be deemed distinct (Kenny, 2015; Zinbarg et al, 2018). Consequently, the CFA results confirm the five-dimensional MPSC construct proposed by Chen et al (2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…According to (Cole, 1987), convergent validity refers to “a factor loading significantly greater than zero” (p. 593); discriminant validity is operationalized as “a correlation between factors significantly less than 1.0” (p. 593). CFA provides straightforward statistical tests for convergent and discriminant validity (Cole, 1987; Zinbarg et al, 2018). As demonstrated in Figure 2 and Table 3, all factor loadings are significantly greater than zero, and all standardized factor covariances are significantly less than 1.0 (90% CI considered).…”

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Revisiting Motivations for a Public Service Career (MPSC): The Case of China

Chen

2020

Public Personnel Management

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Motivations for choosing a public service career have long been a core issue in public administration research. This study focuses on China. Using the self-determination theory (SDT) as the basic framework, we revise Chen et al.’s scale which captures multiple motivations for a public service career (MPSC). We then validate the revised scale with responses from a questionnaire. The results show five distinct dimensions of MPSC, and all of them are associated with work-related attitudes and perceptions in different ways. In the conclusion, we discuss the theoretical and practical contributions of this study.

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“…The expert panels will give some feedback for improvement in the survey design. This second evaluation is based on convergent validity and discriminates validity (Meirte et al, 2017;Zinbarg et al, 2018). The Likert scales were applied for the validation process.…”

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Analysis of Expert Validation on Developing Factors Influencing Career Choice Malaysian Vocational College Teachers’ Model

Mutalib¹,

Mahmud

Affandi³

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Purpose of study: The teaching profession is often seen as a non-rewarding career due to high burden duties that the teachers must endure. Consequently, many teachers lose interest in teaching, which resulted in a lack of job satisfaction. However, this profession has been chosen due to intrinsic, extrinsic and altruistic motivation. In view of this, there are some factors that are not explored in depth in a teaching career at Vocational Colleges.The purpose of this study is to explore Malaysian Vocational College teachers’ career choice. The goals of this research are to discover factors that lead Malaysian Vocational College teachers to pursue teaching and to identify the sub-factors in preparing them to be vocational teachers. Methodology: The development of the constructs Malaysian Vocational College teachers’ career choice is based on 114 literature review articles. This goal is accomplished through 5 panels of experts consensus through the online questionnaires. Online questionnaires are chosen to conduct the survey because of its good review and user-friendliness. All levels of the agreement will be elevated by using the Fliess Kappa (K ) because more than 2 respondents. Fleiss Kappa is then used to evaluate the level of agreement between the raters. Result: There are six major key factors found: family influence, socio-cultural influence, individual, situational and spiritual. There are 130 items developed and the overall finding K value is 0.55. Nevertheless, the K value within six major key factors is 0.4 to 0.86. The expert panels agree that this questionnaire might be acceptable with some improvement based on their additional comments in the online form. Based on this validation process, this questionnaire can be used in selecting the quality of Malaysian Vocational College teachers or TVET instructors. For the next step, this questionnaire will be conducted on 52 excellent teachers at Malaysian Vocational Colleges to understand in depth the key factors that significantly influence the decision of an individual to enter the vocational teaching profession in Malaysian Vocational Colleges. Implications/Applications: In the future, the findings on this research will expose rich sources on the field of teaching and will be helpful to identify some high-quality TVET teachers in Malaysian Vocational College.

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Testing the convergent and discriminant validity of the Systemic Therapy Inventory of Change Initial scales

Cited by 18 publications

References 42 publications

Physical Couple and Family Violence Among Clients Seeking Therapy: Identifiers and Predictors

Physical Couple and Family Violence Among Clients Seeking Therapy: Identifiers and Predictors

Revisiting Motivations for a Public Service Career (MPSC): The Case of China

Analysis of Expert Validation on Developing Factors Influencing Career Choice Malaysian Vocational College Teachers’ Model

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