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A Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) is a mental health and behavior specialist with a graduate-level certification in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). BCBAs develop treatment plans to improve behaviors and encourage positive traits, often working with individuals with autism, developmental disabilities, or mental health issues1.

Steps to Become a BCBA from India:

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Pandia Vadivu Pandian When you cut and paste an answer from an AI, you should state your source, just as you would in any other academic setting.

Hi,

Follow Beal's list fir predatory journals and organizations. Also, see who is organizing and do a background search in internet and you can easily find out if that was predatory.

Fascinating tidbit about Seligman above. I was not aware that's where the positive psychology movement originally comes from. It shines an interesting light on the movement itself because the anecdote about Seligman seems very sad. Perhaps the positive psychology framework can in part be understood as a form of personal struggle against depression, but also the process of pathologization more broadly. The roots of the movement certainly seem to bear a connexion with the 70's humanistic and post-modern/critical lines of thinking.

A supervisor of mine, Dr Allen Surkis, used to say that beneath every symptom there is the seed of health. I am guessing that in this sense, very few therapists out there do NOT make at least some use of positive psychology in their work. Perhaps symptoms/suffering and positivity/resilience should be viewed as a duality, or at least not as a binary.

It is not unusual that projective assessment material reflects attempts by the person to keep depression or distress at bay, via the use of manic/hypomanic or pollyannaish defenses. Those can be seen as "symptoms" I suppose but I think more productively as markers of internal struggle that can be made sense of (reflected, interpreted), perhaps even channeled in the direction of health. That being said, I share Dr Joy's concern regarding the more superficial nature (e.g., self-report) of the assessments in the field of positive psychology.

Here is a good starting point: imaging.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk. Notice, in this article Cohen's f for different effect sizes using multiple regression are different than what you cite.

this research cites many studies that are relatively recent and quite informative.

I hope the following article can help you.

Good and interesting answer Dear Dr. @Francisco Javier Gala!

In addressing the analysis of Likert items, it is important to be aware of the psychometric, as well as the statistical, component of this issue. The definition of an interval scale is one that has identical psychological intervals between response categories. In a 5-category Likert scale, that means that the psychological distance between a rating of 4 and a rating of 5 is the same as the difference between a rating of 3 and a rating 4, and so on. An ordinal scale makes no assumptions about these differences between scale categories, so the assumption that a Likert scale is only ordinal implies that the difference between a rating of 4 and a rating of 5 could be 1000 times the size of the difference between a rating of 3 and a rating 4. It is quite implausible that any realistic set of Likert scale ratings would have differences between scale categories that are so large. To the contrary, Likert scale ratings are much more likely to be approximately interval even if they are not exactly interval. Consequently, the analysis of even individual Likert items will not necessarily produce unreasonable statistical results. However, the analysis of individual Likert items can be criticized on the basis of the psychometric rationale that a single Likert item is unlikely to provide a reliable and valid (as indicated by content, construct, and predictive validity) measure of a psychological domain (see Nunnally & Bernstein, 1994).

In summary, Likert items should be formed into multi-item scales because those measures will have better psychometric properties (i.e., provide a more representative sample of the construct being measured). Moreover, the Central Limit Theorem indicates that combining individual Likert items--or any other types of items--into multi-item scales will tend to produce interval scales that satisfy the usual statistical assumptions. For further discussion, see the references below, which indicate that complaints about the analysis of Likert items using parametric tests are often oversimplified and overstated.

Joshi, A., Kale, S., Chandel, S., & Pal, D. K. (2015). Likert scale: Explored and explained. British journal of applied science & technology, 7(4), 396.

Norman, G. (2010). Likert scales, levels of measurement and the “laws” of statistics. Advances in health sciences education, 15(5), 625-632.

Nunnally, J.C. & Bernstein, I.H. (1994). Psychometric Theory, 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Willits, F. K., Theodori, G. L., & Luloff, A. E. (2016). Another look at Likert scales. Journal of Rural Social Sciences, 31(3), 6.

Hi there. Here are a few suggestions (from a native speaker of French from Belgium. For a 7-point Likert scale, I would say the following:

Strongly agree: tout à fait d'accord

agree: d'accord

somewhat agree: plutôt d'accord

somewhat disagree: plutôt pas d'accord

disagree : pas d'accord

Strongly disagree: Pas du tout d'accord

no opinion = pas d'avis

Be careful, no opinion is not the same as "neutre". I would translate as: "pas d'avis", which is the option you include if you allow participants to not answer the question. For the "neither agree nor disagree", I would say 'ni d'accord ni pas d'accord"

I hope this helps

Eloy

As the developer of the MSPSS, I agree with Alexander Ponizovsky. I have made the scale and associated materials available to anyone who wants to use the MSPSS. I recognize that some institutions require that their students get formal permission to use the MSPSS and I am happy to provide that as needed. For this purpose I can be message here on Research Gate or at my email address: gzimet@iu.edu.

If I understand you are interested in interactions wouldn't a factorial design clean this up a lot. Just throwing stuff in is not a good experimental design. Best wishes David Booth

In general, although if there is one for research institutions I'd be interested in seeing it. Thanks

The Parenting Sense of Competence (PSOC) scale is a commonly used measure of parental self-efficacy. The PSOC is a 17-item questionnaire which measures overall parenting sense of competence and includes two sub-scales measuring parental satisfaction and parental self-efficacy.

Dear researcher

Do you know that the best research you can write in a doctorate in the field of clinical psychology is when you choose pathological categories from the categories of (special education), this category that many of us researchers in the field of clinical psychology are lost about, and we do not know in fact, many among the mysteries and physical, psychological and health problems that it suffers from, because all our goal is to establish research on sick people who frequent hospitals, but these categories can be said that they are categories (broken emotions).

During my master’s studies, I revealed a strange behavior to the visually impaired, and until this time I decided to form a complete theory after discovering the main cause of it, in order to treat it psychologically and biologically.

Consider what I sent you from the message, an important scientific advice, and when you go into your choice of any of the special education categories, you will know my purpose completely, and in the end you will cooperate with me to help the people who come from these categories.

Greetings,

nuha hamid taher

Senior lecturer

Clinical Psychology

College of Basic Education / Al-Mustansiriya University

Amjad Pervez Strictly speaking, Cronbach's alpha only makes sense when your variables are measured on an interval scale (i.e., when you have continuous/metrical/scale-level variables) and when the variables are in line with the classical test theory (CTT) model of (essential) tau equivalence (or stricter models). Essential tau-equivalence implies that the variables/items measure a single factor/common true score variable (i.e., that they are unidimensional) with equal loadings. For variables that are only congeneric (measure a single factor/dimension but have different factor loadings), Cronbach's alpha underestimates reliability. For multidimensional scales, Cronbach's alpha tends to be completely meaningless. For categorical (binary and ordinal) variables, psychometric models and scaling procedures of item response theory are usually more appropriate that procedures derived from CTT which assumes continuous (scale-level) variables.

Maybe you could describe the content of your variables (and the answer options) in a bit more detail. That would make it easier for folks on Researchgate to see which procedure may be appropriate for you.

Christoph A Krettler attached

Visual analogue scale

I would suggest some type of delay mechanism that the user can adjust, say from 5 minutes to 24 hours. A simple time delay can provide a new perspective on the desired object. It may simply not appear as attractive after a short wait.

Check google scholar, you will find citation under each article description. different referencing styles could be found

It is right that you have to purchase the questionnaire at mindgarden.com because of the copyright as Adelheid Nicol already mentioned. Unfortunately Michael Leiter could not provide it for my research.

Concerning MBI-ES (Educators Survey) which is specific for teachers, there is an adapted free German version which is part of the "Skalen zur Erfassung von Lehrer- und Schülermerkmalen" by Jerusalem & Schwarzer (1999). You can download it here: http://www.psyc.de/skalendoku.pdf

You will find the items on pp. 64-70.

This is my area of research as well, we should definitely connect. I'm using biomechanical tests as they are the only thing we have any validity studies on right now and are used clinically, though there is a difference between range of motion and tension. Have you published your research yet?

Snehal Nagarsheth thank you, will read up about it!

if the control variables at Level-2, upper one (at the intercept ones) is correct. If the control variables at Level-1, you need to include them at the Level-1 step. Hope this is helpful.

I agree with Stephen Joy, in terms of approach... additionally, have you had a chance to look at the discussion initiated by Merylle Mathew https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_are_the_different_scales_to_measure_emotional_intelligence.

My Proposal date of submission 17th March so I need to confirm opportunity to access and discuss in interview mode before that date.

This will form my major research project for a required component.

Again Thank you.

Gary Darbyshire MMgmt MStratMktng Grad Dip Cou.

Hi Angela,

Have you managed to use the Mouselab with a choice experiment? I'm interested in using it and sharing some thoughts

Hey Kenneth Carling , I got this number from page 29 in their book (Always Be Stopping, Chapter 1). They quote research results from Seale & Rapoport (1997) who found that on average their subjects leapt at 31% when given the secretary problem - they say that most people leapt too soon. They also say that there are more studies ("about a dozen") with the same result, which makes it more credible in my view.

Hi Guys, I hope that this discussion about investigating real behavior instead of self-report will be interesting for you:

That certainly depends how you define consciousness. It has been convingly shown that human embryos can perceive pain (which certainly needs some kind of consciousness) at week 20 of prenatal life.

Kind regards, Fres

Hi Hancel,

I seem to have a difference in opinion with a few things that were stated. Firstly, you differentiated medical and mental illness purely on the presence or absence of physiological distress, which I believe is inaccurate. Mental illnesses do have physical manifestations ( Called Psychosomatic ), in addition to behavioural and and psychological effects. Secondly, while you have painted a pretty accurate picture about the causes or contributing factors of mental illnesses, you have left out genetics, which is a huge area of research with respect to mental illnesses.

Lastly, mental illnesses do most certainly exist. They are far more diverse, are multifaceted, vary with respect to the levels of impairment, distress, among other things. Mental health communities world wide have been trying to psycho-educate the general population to seek help and to sensitize them about the stereotypes and stigmas attached to mental illnesses. I do advice caution while writing this reflective essay as it can influence the opinion of people who read it.

I'm not sure where Uchendu E. Chigbu wants you to "dig deeper" because Braun and Clarke (2006) is by far the most widely known source on Thematic Analysis, with over 45,000 citations in Google Scholar.

Why did you not include health educators? They have training in health behavior as well as in research methods including the Delphi method.

Generally speaking musicians are no different to other professionals working in creative or stressful (performance) settings and so their health education requirements will be little different and should cover issues such as

- mind/body interaction

- stress and its management

- healthy lifestyle

- mental health

- help seeking

- etc etc

However, there may be one or two very specific issues

- e.g. specific stresses of performance e.g. critical solos. Mindfulness or cognitive approaches, exercise, yoga etc could all be helpful

- working in orchestras etc with strong personalities, dealing with demanding colleagues - materials on dealing the difficult people work well

- hearing damage from exposure to peak noise from instruments such as brass

I would suggest the best approach is a quick literature review, consultation with colleagues (you have many experts in regional universities), and then a brainstorm of the musician specific issues. In combination this should give you a good platform. Finally I should add that mention should be made of the health benefits of music participation as this is also an important aspect.

you can use a utility function for measuring risk aversion check this article it will help you

Thomas, P. J. (2016). Measuring risk-aversion: The challenge. Measurement, 79, 285-301.

First, I would keep a distance from sustainability concepts, concerning human life quality (because this burns down to economic reform in a capitalist system=systems maintenance). Second, the human bias is built into every questionnaire, concerning life quality; it is always built on the subjective perspective of the interviewer. Third, I do think, all research that is based around happiness is a good starting point for your work; most foundations do apply a happiness index, and this indexes could be methodically compared.

Welcome back! How did you go about measurning meta emotion?

its not possibile with heart rate. but IBI data can do your work

Hi Katie,

You first need to reverse-score items 6 and 10. Although Gibbons and Buunk reported that their data reduced to two factors (Ability and Opinions), the two factors were also highly correlated. A one-factor model also fit the data well and the authors recommended computing the mean of all 11 items (i.e., a total score comprising all items) for practical use.

All the best,

Viren

Self rated approach

Gratitude, Gratitude, Gratitude

Optimism is key

stress reduction, a positive self-bias, and increased pain tolerance, all of which could enhance motivation and performance during competitive tasks.

Hello Dr. Davies:

Unfortunately, I cannot answer your question with a definitive “yes” or “no.” My sense is that our field continues to sort thought these psychometric issues. Pooling justice faucets into a single measure has been called “composite” justice. As you point out, composite justice is distinct from Ambrose and Schminke’s (2009) measure of overall justice, and it’s important not to conflate the two. My best guess is that overall justice would be the preferred approach, though a case could be made for each.

I would encourage you to see the following chapter, which compares composite and overall justice:

Ambrose, M. A., Wo, D. X. H., & Griffith, M. D. (2015). Overall justice: Past, present, and future. In R. S. Cropanzano & M. A. Ambrose (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Justice in the Workplace (pp. 109-137). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Ambrose and her colleagues (2015) provide a table on pp. 115-116 that reviews the different measures employed. You’ll find a few articles, though not many, that assessed composite justice.

In short, there are some studies that have used measures of composite justice (as opposed to overall justice). However, doing so is likely to be regarded with skepticism.

Best of luck with your work,

Russell

E-mail: florencia.sortheix@helsinki.fi

Am besten fragen Sie Florencia M. Sortheix direkt. Sie hat höchst wahrscheinlich die Daten noch und arbeitet bei der Universität in Helsinki, Finnland.

I suggest you use the Hopkins Symptom Checklist 10 (HSCL-10). It measures both anxiety and depression symptoms.

Nadine Sarter at the University of Michigan has done extensive work in interruption management as well as multimodal displays which you may find useful.

Within Social Psychology there is a bias called the, "false consensus effect."  Generally, when we believe something, it makes this knowledge and our reasons for believing something more easily accessible in memory, and this in turn makes it seem more common among others than it really is.  The findings that I'm most aware of are primarily about attitudes, but it seems like it could equally apply to knowledge.  There are many studies where people state their attitude and estimate the prevalence among others.  People with the attitude over-estimate agreement (relative to the actual percent of respondents) and those with the opposite attitude over-estimate agreement with the opposite perspective (i.e., their attitude).  Best wishes with your research, Shaojing. ~ Kevin

Shahrzad ,

Look bellow the figure extrated from the Uriel and Aldás (2005) book.

There no is a "universal transformation"; You need try some transformations until discovery the better for your data.

Uriel E.,.& Aldás, J. (2005) Análisis multivariante aplicado: aplicaciones al marketing, investigación de mercados, economía, dirección de empresas y turismo. Madrid: Thomson.

hope help you

Best regards

Dirceu

Zahra Gheidar, is it a response to me or a recommendation for Dr. Aponte?

Thankyou so much for both your help, it really is appreciated.

Rachel

Lots of studies covering training effectiveness done for the military; e.g., learning while under stress, amount of stress, types of stress, etc.  There is probably at least a few on how to keep groups interested/awake and engaged while sleep deprived.  Airborne school cadre teach using primer words and actions that require a specific response or action from the students; helps to bring a wandering mind back to the situation at hand.  I believe this is a form of "gamifying/gamification" which are terms definitely worth researching for your goal of maximizing training output.

Hi, Dana and Dibakar!

My question is why you consider using sinusoidal functions to model fuzzy data? In a recent paper (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309722880_A_hypothesis_testing-based_discussion_on_the_sensitivity_of_means_of_fuzzy_data_with_respect_to_data_shape?_iepl%5BviewId%5D=dh3iNoDU8lzXX4fAYl9KrmLn5ULYWjIokEd1&_iepl%5Bcontexts%5D%5B0%5D=prfhpi&_iepl%5Bdata%5D%5BstandardItemCount%5D=4&_iepl%5Bdata%5D%5BuserSelectedItemCount%5D=0&_iepl%5Bdata%5D%5BtopHighlightCount%5D=2&_iepl%5Bdata%5D%5BstandardItemIndex%5D=1&_iepl%5Bdata%5D%5BstandardItem1of4%5D=1&_iepl%5BtargetEntityId%5D=PB%3A309722880&_iepl%5BinteractionType%5D=publicationTitle) it has been statistically shown that for purposes of testing about means (the same would apply for variances) of fuzzy data, shape is not significantly relevant.

I don't know whether you need the sinusoidal shape for some additional reasons. Although the already developed statistical methods to deal with FRS data can be applied to sinusoidal and other data shapes, trapezoidal one usually allows us to ease and get exact computations.

Kindest regards,

maria 

 Be careful about getting stuck viewing the veins on the leaves of the trees and not the whole forest here.  Certainly, that may improve Cronbach's Alpha. But, does it improve the theoretical structure of the scale?  Second, be cautious about a statistical fishing expedition in search of better statistics.  Do you have a theoretical rationale or other psychometric rationale for omitting these items (s)?  Do they have low loadings, cross loadings, or other problematic indicators? These would be more potent reasons for omitting an item.

Start by making a list of all items that you would need for the week. At the end of the week make a list of all items you have purchased. Separate them into three categories.

1. The needed items on your previous list

2. Emergency purchases

3. Other items purchased

Replicate this for a period of at least two months. At the end of the period, total the number of items under each category, divide each figure by the total number of items purchased (in all the 3 categories), and divide by 100. Graph the results on a pie chart.The percentage of the category "other Items purchased" would be the percentage of your impulsive buying. 

Partha

You can get a suitable scale from the International Personality Item Pool (ipip.ori.org). Look at the items in the scale before choosing a scale (i.e. do not just look at the name of the scale) as they can differ widely.

Hello ,

thank you for your interest in our work.  If you would be interested to use the tool we use for our work and research (it's called EISIP), please contact Prof Banse from the university of Bonn.  The tool is available in German and English, and we translated it for our purposes into Dutch.  Maybe a translation into Slovakian is possible as well.

Good luck with your work.

Kris Vanhoeck

I.T.E.R., Brussels

Thanks for your responses. 

Good question. I think this shows one of the limits of face validity. Who are the experts?

If it does not seem "valid" for different groups of users (is users a better group than experts?), that does not mean it is not valid in other senses of the word validity (e.g., causal validity by Borsboom, Kane's how it is used validity, Meehl and Cronbach, etc.). One problem with experts is that they are not always right, This is why the US courts no longer use just general acceptance (Frye) for accepting expert testimony (the Daubert trilogy of cases addressed this). Galileo was not helped by "experts."

Dear Karine,

If you are interested, I can send you  the Emotional Skills and Competence Questionnaire (ESCQ) we developed and it has cross culturally validated. The info about ESCQ you can find at:  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235938207_Emotional_Skills_and_Competence_Questionnaire_ESCQ_as_a_self-report_measure_of_emotional_intelligence

Have a nice day.

Best

Vladimir (Tale) Takšić

thank you so much to all of you.

Thank you Scott Sumerall. I'll check the website.

I found this if it is of any help

Hello Kathryn

It seems that the original was unpublished:

Beck, A. T., & Beck, J. S. (1991). The Personality Belief Questionnaire. Unpublished assessment instrument. Bala Cynwyd, PA: The Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research.

. . . but it has been widely used and the scoring key seems quite available:

This, I think, is Aaron T Beck's ResearchGate page; although there are not the expected publications there, I think he was based at the University of Pennsylvania. You could send a message? 

And this is Judith S Beck, his daughter:

Or this is the university contact for both Aaron and Judith Beck:

Alternatively, maybe if you contact the other co-authors on ResearchGate or at their work address:

Beck, A. T., Butler, A. C., Brown, G. K., Dahlsgaard, K. K., Newman, C. F., & Beck, J. S. (2001). Dysfunctional beliefs discriminate personality disorders. Behaviour research and therapy, 39(10), 1213-1225.

t: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222577535

Bhar, S. S., Beck, A. T., & Butler, A. C. (2012). Beliefs and personality disorders: an overview of the personality beliefs questionnaire. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 68(1), 88-100.

Very best wishes,

Mary

Hi Anne,

Have you looked into the time perspective research by Philip Zimbardo? Not sure if it fits  you needs exactly, but the items of his inventory might be helpful.

I think the attached document has everything you need. If not, I suggest contacting Harter directly.

Incidentally, I think there is also a version designed specifically for the elderly.

Thank you the replies! much appreciated!

thanks a lot for you

 

Mr. Marco V. Rossi,

Thank you very much for presenting your take.

"Brand experience 1 is an antecedent of the customer engagement state 1 which leads in tun to the brand experience 2 (in this case, a consequence of the state of engagement). It's a circular process according to me."

Ya! It is a pretty convincing comment. 

Cheers!

I'm working with cognitive and social-emotional complexity, via a profile tool use on MBA and PhD students that breaks down how they think in context. I'm not a fan of the Big Five, so my response would be more detailed in that Extroversion and Introversion can be broken down further into a combination of Thinking Preferences. In my experience of over 120 student profiles, the tendency for collaboration is low.

The MBTI system in the above link is not useful. It's a horoscope in my experience. For example: does a person prefer to be an Individualist or a Team Member? Those two Thinking Preferences alone will give you more information than any MBTI "profile". 

Feel free to contact me.

Realmente considero que lo mas importante es la filosofia de vida y de sociedad que puedas tener, puesto que en funcion del conjunto de valores y normas que tu tengas establecido sobre la vida, podras desarrollar un proceso que genera estabilidad o por lo mneos que se oreinte a promover las mejoras en todos los ambitos de la vida, incluido el proceso tecnologico que es parte importante para nuestro desarrollo.

Very helpful..thanks a lot, you both! 

thanks alot Maura Mills

Thank you so much sir