Barbara M Byrne
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 137550 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Barbara M Byrne |
| NOMBRES | Barbara M |
| APELLIDO | Byrne |
| FIRMA | BYRNE B M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Ottawa |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 383 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1984 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Adaptation of Assessment Scales in Cross-National Research
Increasingly, over the past 2 decades, there has been a growing interest in cross-national comparisons. This activity, in turn, has precipitated an escalating number of assessment scales being translated into other languages for use in countries and cultures that differ from those of the original scales (typically developed and normed in the United States). Recent criticism of these translated scales has highlighted the singularity of focus on li…
Structural Equation Modeling With EQS
Readers who want a less mathematical alternative to the EQS manual will find exactly what they're looking for in this practical text. Written specifically for those with little to no knowledge of structural equation modeling (SEM) or EQS, the author's goal is to provide a non-mathematical introduction to the basic concepts of SEM by applying these principles to EQS, Version 6.1. The book clearly demonstrates a wide variety of SEM/EQS applications…
Structural Equation Modeling with Mplus
Modeled after Barbara Byrne’s other best-selling structural equation modeling (SEM) books, this practical guide reviews the basic concepts and applications of SEM using Mplus Versions 5 & 6. The author reviews SEM applications based on actual data taken from her own research. Using non-mathematical language, it is written for the novice SEM user. The remaining chapters focus on SEM applications and include a variety of SEM models presented within…
Cross-cultural research methods in psychology
Cross-cultural research methods in psychology, edited by David Matsumoto and Fons van de Vijver, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 2010, xii + 392 pp., £63.00/$102.00 (hardback)
Testing for Measurement and Structural Equivalence in Large-Scale Cross-Cultural Studies
A critical assumption in cross-cultural comparative research is that the instrument measures the same construct(s) in exactly the same way across all groups (i.e., the instrument is measurement and structurally equivalent). Structural equation modeling (SEM) procedures are commonly used in testing these assumptions of multigroup equivalence. However, when comparisons comprise large-scale cross-cultural studies, the standard SEM strategy can be ex…
Teacher's Corner
The overarching intent of this article is to exemplify strategies associated with tests for measurement invariance that are uncommonly applied and reported in the extant literature. Designed within a pedagogical framework, the primary purposes are 3-fold and illustrate (a) tests for measurement invariance based on the analysis of means and covariance structures (MACS), (b) use of the MACS approach in testing for an invariant higher order factor s…
Factor Analytic Models
The overarching purpose of this article is to present a nonmathematical introduction to the application of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) within the framework of structural equation modeling as it applies to psychological assessment instruments. In the interest of clarity and ease of understanding, I model exploratory factor analysis (EFA) structure in addition to first- and second-order CFA structures. All factor analytic structures are base…
Predictors of Young Adolescents? Math Grades and Course Enrollment Intentions
Testing for Multigroup Invariance Using Amos Graphics
The purpose of this article is to illustrate the steps involved in testing for multigroup invariance using Amos Graphics. Based on analysis of covariance (ANCOV) structures, 2 applications are demonstrated, each of which represents a different set of circumstances. Application 1 focuses on the equivalence of a measuring instrument and tests for its invariance across 3 teacher panels, given baseline models that are identical across groups. Applica…
The Issue Of Measurement Invariance Revisited
The purposes of this study were twofold: (a) based on the analysis of covariance structures, to test for the equivalence of a well-known measuring instrument across two culturally diverse groups and (b) provided with findings of nonequivalent items, to identify possible determinants of their noninvariance; post hoc investigations included tests for evidence of item bias using an ANOVA-based approach and examination of graphical displays of item r…
Measurement equivalence
Current interest in the assessment of measurement equivalence emphasizes 2 major methods of analysis. The authors offer a comparison of a linear method (confirmatory factor analysis) and a nonlinear method (differential item and test functioning using item response theory) with an emphasis on their methodological similarities and differences. The 2 approaches test for the equality of true scores (or expected raw scores) across 2 populations when …
Validating the measurement and structure of self-concept
Although the study of self-concept has been a topic of great interest and much study in the social sciences for many decades, it is really only in the past 30 years that any fruitful expansion in knowledge of both its theoretical structure and its related measurement has been forthcoming. From three perspectives--past, present, and future--the author presents abbreviated and selected highlights of important construct validity findings related to …
Structural Equation Modeling With Amos, EQS, and Lisrel
Using a confirmatory factor analytic (CFA) model as a paradigmatic basis for all comparisons, this article reviews and contrasts important features related to 3 of the most widely-used structural equation modeling (SEM) computer programs: AMOS 4.0 (Arbuckle, 1999), EQS 6 (Bentler, 2000), and LISREL 8 (Joreskog & Sorbom, 1996b). Comparisons focus on (a) key aspects of the programs that bear on the specification and testing of CFA models-preliminar…
Cross-Cultural Comparisons and the Presumption of Equivalent Measurement and Theoretical Structure
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate, paradigmatically, the extent to which item score data can vary across cultures despite measurements from an instrument for which the factorial structure is equivalently specified in each group. Based on item scores from the Beck Depression Inventory, the authors first tested for the group invariance of factorial structure and then examined the patterns of item score distributions and response frequen…
The Beck Depression Inventory
The purpose of the present study was to test for the validity of a higher order factorial structure of a Bulgarian version of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) for non clinical adolescents. In a cross validation of three independent samples (n 1 = 227; n2 = 172; n3 = 292), and based on the analysis of covariance structures within the framework of a confirmatory factor analytic model, findings yielded exceptionally strong support for the hypothe…
Measuring self-concept across the life span
Measuring Self-Concept: The Conceptual Issues Measuring Self-Concept: The Psychometric Issues Search for and Selection of Self-Concept Measures Measures of Self-Concept for Young Children: Measurement of General Self-Concept: Joseph Pre-School and Primary Self-Concept Screening Test Measurement of Multidimensional Self-Concepts: The Pictoral Scale of Perceived Competence and Social Acceptance Measures of Self-Concept for Preadolescents: Measureme…
On the structure of social self-concept for pre-, early-, and late adolescents
This study is the first to empirically validate the social self-concept component of the R. J. Shavelson, J. J. Hubner, and G. C. Stanton (1976) model. The primary purpose was to test for each of 3 age groups--preadolescents (Grade 3), early adolescents (Grade 7), and late adolescents (Grade 11)-3 hypotheses bearing on the structure of social self-concept within the context of this model: (a) that it is multidimensional, (b) that it is hierarchic…
On the structure of social self-concept for pre-, early, and late adolescents
Testing for the Factorial Validity, Replication, and Invariance of a Measuring Instrument
The intent of this article is twofold: (a) to report substantive findings from a cross-validated study that tested for the factorial validity and invariance of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) across gender for elementary (males n = 742; females n = 801) and secondary (males n = 659; females n = 721) teachers, and (b) for purposes of helping readers who may be new to the structural modeling methodology, to provide an example of how these proce…
The Beck Depression Inventory (French Version)
The purposes of the study were threefold: (a) to testforthefactorial validity of the French version of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-FR) separatelyfornonclinical adolescent francophone males (n = 551) andfemales (n = 601), (b) to cross-validatefindings across a second independent sample for each gender, and (c) to test for equivalent factorial structure across genderfor this population. Exceptfor one differentialfactor loadingfor females (It…
Burnout
The study investigated the impact of organizational (role ambiguity, role conflict, work overload, classroom climate, decision making, superior support,’ peer support) and personality (self-esteem, external locus of control) factors on three facets of burnout—Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization, and reduced Personal Accomplishment within one conceptual framework. Participants were full-time elementary (n = 1203), intermediate (n = 410), and s…
Modeling MTMM Data from Additive and Multiplicative Covariance Structures
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which findings derived from four approaches to MTMM analyses were consistent in providing evidence of construct validity related to the measurement of four dimensions of perceived competence (social, academic, English, mathematics) across four maximally dissimilar rating methods (self, teacher, parent, peer). MTMM methodological approaches included that of Campbell-Fiske (1959), the general…
Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Multitrait-Multimethod Self-concept Data
The purposes of the present investigation are to demonstrate extensions of the confirmatory factor analysis approach (CFA) to multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) data and to evaluate self-other agreement on multiple dimensions of self-concept. Two studies evaluated the ability of significant others to infer multiple dimensions of self-concept of university students in Australia (n = 151) and in Canada (n = 941). In both studies self-other agreement on …
Measuring Adolescent Depression
Extending the earlier work of Byrne and Baron (in press), the factorial invariance of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) was tested across nonclinical adolescent males (n = 351) and females (n = 334) using confirmatory factor-analytic procedures. Despite the differential loading pattern of Item 20 for females, a three-factor structure that comprised one second-order general factor of depression and three first-order factors representing negative…
Overcoming Problems in Confirmatory Factor Analyses of MTMM Data
The general model typically used in the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) approach to multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) data is plagued with methodological problems and frequently results in improper or unstable solutions. Here we reanalyze data from a previously published study, demonstrating that this model may lead to inappropriate interpretations even when it does converge to a proper solution, and describe safeguards against this occurrence. Th…
Testing for the equivalence of factor covariance and mean structures
Addresses issues related to partial measurement in variance using a tutorial approach based on the LISREL confirmatory factor analytic model. Specifically, we demonstrate procedures for (a) using "sensitivity analyses " to establish stable and substantively well-fitting baseline models, (b) determining partially invariant measurement parameters, and (c) testing for the invariance of factor covariance and mean structures, given partial measurement…
Cross-Cultural Comparisons and the Presumption of Equivalent Measurement and Theoretical Structure
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate, paradigmatically, the extent to which item score data can vary across cultures despite measurements from an instrument for which the factorial structure is equivalently specified in each group. Based on item scores from the Beck Depression Inventory, the authors first tested for the group invariance of factorial structure and then examined the patterns of item score distributions and response frequen…
The Issue Of Measurement Invariance Revisited
The purposes of this study were twofold: (a) based on the analysis of covariance structures, to test for the equivalence of a well-known measuring instrument across two culturally diverse groups and (b) provided with findings of nonequivalent items, to identify possible determinants of their noninvariance; post hoc investigations included tests for evidence of item bias using an ANOVA-based approach and examination of graphical displays of item r…
Burnout
Adolescent Self-Concept
This study tested the invariance of a multidimensional, hierarchical self-concept (SC) structure for adolescent males and females. In a covariance structure analysis of data from a sample of 832 (412 males, 420 females) grade 11 and 12 students, with multiple measures of general, academic, English, and mathematics SC facets, SC structure differed for males and females. Although the number of SC factors, pattern of factor loadings (except for one)…
Burnout
The study investigated the impact of organizational (role ambiguity, role conflict, work overload, classroom climate, decision making, superior support,’ peer support) and personality (self-esteem, external locus of control) factors on three facets of burnout—Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization, and reduced Personal Accomplishment within one conceptual framework. Participants were full-time elementary (n = 1203), intermediate (n = 410), and s…
Predictors of Young Adolescents? Math Grades and Course Enrollment Intentions
On the structure of social self-concept for pre-, early, and late adolescents
On the structure of social self-concept for pre-, early-, and late adolescents
This study is the first to empirically validate the social self-concept component of the R. J. Shavelson, J. J. Hubner, and G. C. Stanton (1976) model. The primary purpose was to test for each of 3 age groups--preadolescents (Grade 3), early adolescents (Grade 7), and late adolescents (Grade 11)-3 hypotheses bearing on the structure of social self-concept within the context of this model: (a) that it is multidimensional, (b) that it is hierarchic…
Measuring Adolescent Depression
Extending the earlier work of Byrne and Baron (in press), the factorial invariance of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) was tested across nonclinical adolescent males (n = 351) and females (n = 334) using confirmatory factor-analytic procedures. Despite the differential loading pattern of Item 20 for females, a three-factor structure that comprised one second-order general factor of depression and three first-order factors representing negative…
Gender Differences in the Expression of Depressive Symptoms in Early Adolescents
The purpose of the present study was to examine whether gender differences in the expression of depressive symptoms could be identified on the basis of responses to the Reynolds Adolescent Depression Scale (RADS) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Participants were 207 French-Canadian high school students (83 males, 124 females) from a large metropolitan area of Central Canada. Unlike previous studies with depressed samples, discriminant fu…
Differentiated additive androgyny model
Masculinity (M) and femininity (F) were related to multiple dimensions of self-concept in 2 large studies. Androgyny theory predicts that M and F contribute positively to self-concept, but the effect of F has been nil in research using global self measures. Here, consistent with the new differentiated additive model, the relative contribution of M and F varied substantially, depending on the area of self-concept; F contributed more positively to …
Adolescent Self-Concept, Ability Grouping, and Social Comparison
The Beck Depression Inventory (French Version)
The purposes of the study were threefold: (a) to testforthefactorial validity of the French version of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-FR) separatelyfornonclinical adolescent francophone males (n = 551) andfemales (n = 601), (b) to cross-validatefindings across a second independent sample for each gender, and (c) to test for equivalent factorial structure across genderfor this population. Exceptfor one differentialfactor loadingfor females (It…
The General/Academic Self-Concept Nomological Network
This paper reviews research in which the primary focus was directed toward the construct validation of self-concept (SC) within an educational framework. Specifically, studies are included that investigate SC internally, with respect to its general facet (GSC) and academic facet (ASC), and externally, with respect to its relationship with academic achievement (AA). The literature is divided into two broad categories: within-network research and b…
Adolescent Self-Concept
This study tested the invariance of a multidimensional, hierarchical self-concept (SC) structure for adolescent males and females. In a covariance structure analysis of data from a sample of 832 (412 males, 420 females) grade 11 and 12 students, with multiple measures of general, academic, English, and mathematics SC facets, SC structure differed for males and females. Although the number of SC factors, pattern of factor loadings (except for one)…
A multifaceted academic self-concept
Academic self-concept, originally posited by Shavelson as a single higher-order facet, was found by Marsh and Shavelson to comprise at least 2 higher-order academic facets (verbal and math). Marsh developed the internal/external (I/E) frame of reference model to account for the extreme separation of math and verbal self-concepts and their relations to math and verbal achievements. In our investigation, students completed the academic self-concept…
The Self Description Questionnaire III
Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA; LISREL) was used to (a) validate the Self Description Questionnaire III (SDQ III) subscales measuring general, school, English, and mathematics self-concepts for a sample of 898 (285 low track, 613 high track) grades 11 and 12 students, and (b) test the equivalency of the factor structure across academic track. The results confirmed a 4-factor structure and revealed all factor loadings and covariances to be inva…
Measuring Adolescent Self-Concept
Exploratory (EFA) and confirmatory (CFA) factor analyses were used to investigate the factorial validity of the Self Description Questionnaire III (SDQ III) subscales measuring general, school, English, and mathematics self-concepts for a sample of 991 (455 males, 446 females) grades 11 and 12 students. EFA was used to to examine the initial factor structure, and CFA, to validate and test the invariance of this structure across gender -- three in…
Adolescent Self-Concept, Ability Grouping, and Social Comparison
A Primer of Lisrel
Multigroup Comparisons and the Assumption of Equivalent Construct Validity Across Groups
The purposes of this article are (a) to compare construct validity findings from Campbell-Fiske and LISREL confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) of a multitrait-multimethod matrix for each of two groups, and then to test for construct validity equivalence across groups -- the methodological issue, and (b) to demonstrate how construct validity can differ across groups -- the substantive issue. Multidimensional self-concept (general, academic, English…
Testing for the equivalence of factor covariance and mean structures
Addresses issues related to partial measurement in variance using a tutorial approach based on the LISREL confirmatory factor analytic model. Specifically, we demonstrate procedures for (a) using "sensitivity analyses " to establish stable and substantively well-fitting baseline models, (b) determining partially invariant measurement parameters, and (c) testing for the invariance of factor covariance and mean structures, given partial measurement…
The Maslach Burnout Inventory
The purposes of the study were: (a) to test for the factorial validity of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), for 543 teachers at the intermediate (n = 163), secondary (n = 162), and university (n = 218) levels, and (b) to test for the equivalence of factorial measurements and structure across groups. Initial confirmatory factor analysis of the hypothesized 3-factor structure yielded a malfitting model for each group of educators. With a view to…
Burnout
Differentiated additive androgyny model
Masculinity (M) and femininity (F) were related to multiple dimensions of self-concept in 2 large studies. Androgyny theory predicts that M and F contribute positively to self-concept, but the effect of F has been nil in research using global self measures. Here, consistent with the new differentiated additive model, the relative contribution of M and F varied substantially, depending on the area of self-concept; F contributed more positively to …
Overcoming Problems in Confirmatory Factor Analyses of MTMM Data
The general model typically used in the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) approach to multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) data is plagued with methodological problems and frequently results in improper or unstable solutions. Here we reanalyze data from a previously published study, demonstrating that this model may lead to inappropriate interpretations even when it does converge to a proper solution, and describe safeguards against this occurrence. Th…
Gender Differences in the Expression of Depressive Symptoms in Early Adolescents
The purpose of the present study was to examine whether gender differences in the expression of depressive symptoms could be identified on the basis of responses to the Reynolds Adolescent Depression Scale (RADS) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Participants were 207 French-Canadian high school students (83 males, 124 females) from a large metropolitan area of Central Canada. Unlike previous studies with depressed samples, discriminant fu…
Modeling MTMM Data from Additive and Multiplicative Covariance Structures
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which findings derived from four approaches to MTMM analyses were consistent in providing evidence of construct validity related to the measurement of four dimensions of perceived competence (social, academic, English, mathematics) across four maximally dissimilar rating methods (self, teacher, parent, peer). MTMM methodological approaches included that of Campbell-Fiske (1959), the general…
Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Multitrait-Multimethod Self-concept Data
The purposes of the present investigation are to demonstrate extensions of the confirmatory factor analysis approach (CFA) to multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) data and to evaluate self-other agreement on multiple dimensions of self-concept. Two studies evaluated the ability of significant others to infer multiple dimensions of self-concept of university students in Australia (n = 151) and in Canada (n = 941). In both studies self-other agreement on …
Measuring Adolescent Depression
Extending the earlier work of Byrne and Baron (in press), the factorial invariance of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) was tested across nonclinical adolescent males (n = 351) and females (n = 334) using confirmatory factor-analytic procedures. Despite the differential loading pattern of Item 20 for females, a three-factor structure that comprised one second-order general factor of depression and three first-order factors representing negative…
Testing for the Factorial Validity, Replication, and Invariance of a Measuring Instrument
The intent of this article is twofold: (a) to report substantive findings from a cross-validated study that tested for the factorial validity and invariance of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) across gender for elementary (males n = 742; females n = 801) and secondary (males n = 659; females n = 721) teachers, and (b) for purposes of helping readers who may be new to the structural modeling methodology, to provide an example of how these proce…
The Beck Depression Inventory (French Version)
The purposes of the study were threefold: (a) to testforthefactorial validity of the French version of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-FR) separatelyfornonclinical adolescent francophone males (n = 551) andfemales (n = 601), (b) to cross-validatefindings across a second independent sample for each gender, and (c) to test for equivalent factorial structure across genderfor this population. Exceptfor one differentialfactor loadingfor females (It…
Burnout
The study investigated the impact of organizational (role ambiguity, role conflict, work overload, classroom climate, decision making, superior support,’ peer support) and personality (self-esteem, external locus of control) factors on three facets of burnout—Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization, and reduced Personal Accomplishment within one conceptual framework. Participants were full-time elementary (n = 1203), intermediate (n = 410), and s…
Measuring self-concept across the life span
Measuring Self-Concept: The Conceptual Issues Measuring Self-Concept: The Psychometric Issues Search for and Selection of Self-Concept Measures Measures of Self-Concept for Young Children: Measurement of General Self-Concept: Joseph Pre-School and Primary Self-Concept Screening Test Measurement of Multidimensional Self-Concepts: The Pictoral Scale of Perceived Competence and Social Acceptance Measures of Self-Concept for Preadolescents: Measureme…
On the structure of social self-concept for pre-, early-, and late adolescents
This study is the first to empirically validate the social self-concept component of the R. J. Shavelson, J. J. Hubner, and G. C. Stanton (1976) model. The primary purpose was to test for each of 3 age groups--preadolescents (Grade 3), early adolescents (Grade 7), and late adolescents (Grade 11)-3 hypotheses bearing on the structure of social self-concept within the context of this model: (a) that it is multidimensional, (b) that it is hierarchic…
On the structure of social self-concept for pre-, early, and late adolescents
The Beck Depression Inventory
The purpose of the present study was to test for the validity of a higher order factorial structure of a Bulgarian version of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) for non clinical adolescents. In a cross validation of three independent samples (n 1 = 227; n2 = 172; n3 = 292), and based on the analysis of covariance structures within the framework of a confirmatory factor analytic model, findings yielded exceptionally strong support for the hypothe…
Cross-Cultural Comparisons and the Presumption of Equivalent Measurement and Theoretical Structure
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate, paradigmatically, the extent to which item score data can vary across cultures despite measurements from an instrument for which the factorial structure is equivalently specified in each group. Based on item scores from the Beck Depression Inventory, the authors first tested for the group invariance of factorial structure and then examined the patterns of item score distributions and response frequen…
Psychology (34 obras) · Mathematics (27 obras) · Structural equation modeling (26 obras) · Statistics (24 obras) · Social Psychology (20 obras) · Confirmatory factor analysis (19 obras) · Developmental psychology (17 obras) · Psychometrics (16 obras) · Computer Science (14 obras) · Econometrics (12 obras)