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Conceptualisation, development and validation of T-QoL© (Teenagers' Quality of Life): a patient-focused measure to assess quality of life of adolescents with skin diseases
Aim
To develop and validate a dermatology-specific quality of life (QoL) instrument for adolescents with skin diseases.
Methods
Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with adolescents with skin disease to gain in-depth understanding of how skin diseases affect their QoL. A prototype instrument based on the themes identified from content analysis of interviews was tested in several stages, using Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT) models to develop this new tool and conduct its psychometric evaluation.
Results
Thirty-three QoL issues were identified from semi-structured interviews with 50 adolescents. A questionnaire based on items derived from content analysis of interviews was subjected to Rasch analysis: factor analysis identified three domains, therefore not supporting the validity of T-QoL as a unidimensional measure. Psychometric evaluation of the final 18-item questionnaire was carried out in a cohort of 203 adolescents. Convergent validity was demonstrated by significant correlation with Skindex-Teen and CDLQI or DLQI. The T-QoL showed excellent internal consistency reliability: Cronbach's α=0.89 for total scale score and 0.85, 0.60, and 0.74 respectively for domains 1, 2 and 3. Test-retest reliability was high in stable subjects. T-QoL showed sensitivity to change in two sub-groups of patients who indicated change in their self-assessed disease severity.
Conclusion
Built on rich qualitative data from patients, the T-QoL is a simple and valid tool to quantify the impact of skin disease on adolescents’ QoL; it could be used as an outcome measure in both clinical practice and clinical research
Factor Structure of the Arthritis Body Experience Scale (ABES) in a U.S. Population of People with Osteoarthritis (OA), Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Fibromyalgia (FM) and Other Rheumatic Conditions
Measuring attitude towards Buddhism and Sikhism : internal consistency reliability for two new instruments
This paper describes and discusses the development and empirical properties of two new
24-item scales – one measuring attitude toward Buddhism and the other measuring attitude
toward Sikhism. The scale is designed to facilitate inter-faith comparisons within the
psychology of religion alongside the well-established Francis Scale of Attitude toward
Christianity. Data were obtained from a multi-religious sample of 369 school pupils aged
between 13 and 15 in London. Application of the two scales demonstrated that adolescents
had a more positive attitude to Buddhism than Sikhism. The findings confirm the reliability
of the scales and commend them for further use
Personality, conventional Christian belief and unconventional paranormal belief : a study among teenagers
A sample of 10,851 pupils (5493 males and 5358 females) attending Year 9 classes (13- to 14-year-olds) and a sample of 9494 pupils (4787 males and 4707 females) attending Year 10 classes (14- to 15-year-olds) in non-denominational state-maintained secondary schools in England and Wales completed questions concerned with conventional Christian belief and unconventional paranormal belief, alongside the short-form Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. The data demonstrated that conventional Christian belief and unconventional paranormal belief occupy different locations in relation to the Eysenckian model of personality in respect of the psychoticism scale and the lie scale. While conventional Christian belief is associated with lower psychoticism scores and higher lie scale scores (greater social conformity), unconventional paranormal belief is associated with higher psychoticism scores and lower lie scale scores (lower social conformity)
Consumers’ perceived corporate social responsibility evaluation and support: the moderating role of consumer information
This study analyzes how consumers’ evaluations of various dimensions of corporate social
responsibility (CSR) affect their support of it and how consumers’ searches for CSR information
influence such evaluations. The empirical analysis relies on data on CSR from a wide
representative sample of 3543 Spanish hotel consumers. We use hierarchical multiple
regressions to test the relationships and use factorial analysis to test the validity of the
different CSR dimensions. The proposed positive effects of legal, ethical, economic,
philanthropic and environmental dimensions of CSR on consumers’ support for corporate
reputation, the selection of an establishment, and future purchase intention are corroborated,
although they are only partially corroborated in the case of the economic dimension. These
relationships are moderated in some cases by consumers’ search for information about hotels’
CSR practices. Managerial and economic implications are derived from the results
Congregational bonding social capital and psychological type : an empirical enquiry among Australian churchgoers
This study explores the variation in levels of bonding social capital experienced by individual churchgoers, drawing on data generated by the Australian National Church Life Survey, and employing a five-item measure of church-related bonding social capital. Data provided by 2065 Australian churchgoers are used to test the thesis that individual differences in bonding social capital are related to a psychological model of psychological types (employing the Jungian distinctions). The data demonstrated that higher levels of bonding social capital were found among extraverts (compared with introverts), among intuitive types (compared with sensing types) and among feeling types (compared with thinking types), but no significant differences were found between judging types and perceiving types
Young people's attitudes to religious diversity : quantitative approaches from social psychology and empirical theology
This essay discusses the design of the quantitative component of the ‘Young People’s Attitudes to Religious Diversity’ project, conceived by Professor Robert Jackson within the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit, and presents some preliminary findings from the data. The quantitative component followed and built on the qualitative component within a mixed method design. The argument is advanced in seven steps: introducing the major sources of theory on which the quantitative approach builds from the psychology of religion and from empirical theology; locating the empirical traditions of research among young people that have shaped the study; clarifying the notions and levels of measurement employed in the study anticipating the potential for various forms of data analysis; discussing some of the established measures incorporated in the survey; defining the ways in which the sample was structured to reflect the four nations of the UK, and London; illustrating the potential within largely descriptive cross-tabulation forms of analysis; and illustrating the potential within more sophisticated multivariate analytic models
Threats and Supports to Female Students’ Math Beliefs and Achievement
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Psychological type and prayer preferences: a study among Anglican clergy in the United Kingdom
This study applies the framework of Jungian psychological type theory to define eight aspects of prayer preference, namely: introverted prayer, extraverted prayer, sensing prayer, intuitive prayer, feeling prayer, thinking prayer, judging prayer, and perceiving prayer. On the basis of data provided by 1,476 newly ordained Anglican clergy from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, eight 7-item scales were developed to access these aspects of prayer preferences. Significant correlations were found between each prayer preference and the relevant aspect of psychological type accessed by the Keirsey Temperament Sorter. These data support the theory that psychological type influences the way in which people pray
Measuring attitude toward theistic faith : assessing the Astley-Francis Scale among Christian, Muslim and secular youth in England
Empirical research within the social scientific study of religion in general and within the psychology of religion in particular remains very conscious of the complex nature of its subject matter. Empirical research in this field needs to take cognisance of the many forms in which religion is expressed (say, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Sikhism) and the many facets within the forms (say, beliefs, behaviours and affiliation). Working in the 1970s, Francis (1978a; 1978b) advanced the view that the attitudinal dimension of religion offered a particularly fruitful basis for coordinating empirical enquiry into the correlates, antecedents and consequences of religiosity across the life span
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