Grant B Morgan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3515982 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Grant B Morgan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Grant B |
| FAMILY NAME | Morgan |
| SIGNATURE | MORGAN G B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baylor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3077-4643 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Serving Youth with Disabilities and Mental Health Conditions
Disabilities and mental health conditions are common among adolescents, yet little is known about how youth ministry leaders encounter and approach this population. We surveyed 184 Christian youth ministry leaders across 37 states regarding the presence of these youth within their congregations, as well as their confidence and feelings related to implementing inclusive ministry practices. Nearly all leaders reported the presence of youth with var…
The religious and spiritual beliefs and practices of mental health educators
Currently, little is known about the religious and spiritual (RS) beliefs and practices of faculty in graduate mental health training programs. Here, we analyze data from a recent survey of 1,956 faculty in accredited counseling, marriage and family therapy, psychology, and social work programs across the U.S. to provide the first national assessment of RS beliefs and practices of faculty in these disciplines. Results indicate that many hold RS b…
Does change in faith maturity reflect maturation? Establishing strict measurement invariance for the Faith Maturity Scale across time
Revalidating the religious/spiritually integrated practice assessment scale for educators across four mental health disciplines
This paper describes the validation of the Religious/Spiritually Integrated Practice Assessment Scale for Educators (RSIPAS-EDU) with a diverse sample of faculty in social work, counseling, marriage and family therapy, and psychology. Full-time faculty at accredited graduate schools across disciplines were invited to participate in an online survey that included the RSIPAS-EDU, and 1,742 completed it. Results support the RSIPAS-EDU as a reliable …
Is Mindfulness the Common Ground Between Mental Toughness and Self-Compassion in Student Athletes? A Cross-Sectional Study
This study interrogates whether mental toughness (MT) and self-compassion (SC)—historically framed as oppositional constructs—can coexist synergistically among NCAA Division II, III, and NAIA collegiate athletes, with mindfulness as a hypothesized mediator. A cross-sectional survey of 396 participants (mean age: 19.8 yrs ± 1.9 SD; females: 51%), revealed a robust MT–SC correlation (r = 0.46), which attenuated to 0.31 when mindfulness was modeled,…
Collective leadership
Collective leadership of teachers and administrators can be a vehicle for catalyzing school improvement. In chemistry, a catalyst is any substance that increases the rate of reaction without itself being consumed. Leadership that accelerates good work without using up the leader is increasingly necessary. We identified schools that demonstrated exemplary Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematical (STEM) learning. Using a theoretical model…
Multilevel Latent Transition Mixture Modeling
Person-centered methodologies generally refer to those that take unobserved heterogeneity of populations into account. The use of person-centered methodologies has proliferated, which is likely due to a number of factors, such as methodological advances coupled with increased personal computing power and ease of software use. Using latent class analysis and its extension for longitudinal data, [latent transition analysis (LTA)], multiple underlyi…
Collapsing Categories is Often More Advantageous than Modeling Sparse Data
When questionnaires include Likert scales, items endorsed by relatively few respondents may result from characteristics of examinees or the constructs under study. Researchers may collapse categories to increase cell sample size; however, effects of this practice have not been systematically investigated. A five-point ordinal scale was simulated where data included few responses in extreme categories. Different estimators were applied to sparsely…
Multilevel CFA with Ordered Categorical Data
Within a multilevel confirmatory factor analysis framework, we investigated the ability of commonly used fit indices to discriminate between correctly specified models and misspecified models. Receiver operating characteristics (ROC) analyses were used to evaluate the performance of fit indices. Combining ROC analyses with checks of the convergence rates across Monte Carlo replications and ANOVA for investigating the variation in fit scores acros…
Generating Nonnormal Distributions via Gaussian Mixture Models
The purpose of this paper is to (1) present a method of generating nonnormal univariate and/or uncorrelated multivariate distributions using mixture models, and (2) compare the accuracy of generating nonnormal distributions using the mixture-based method against power transformation method and generalized lambda method. Monte Carlo methods were used to generate data with each of the three nonnormal generation techniques to manipulate levels of sk…
The influence of time attitudes on adolescent alcohol use behaviours
Time Perspective researchers are concerned with the way in which a combination of thoughts and feelings about the past, present and future influence behaviour. Time attitudes comprise a dimension of time perspective where the focus is narrowed to evaluative feelings about the three time periods. The present study included four waves of data gathered in the United Kingdom, and focused on time attitudes. Participants were adolescents in High school…
Wellbeing Indices
A National Analysis of Endowed Chairs and Distinguished Professors in the Field of Education
Noting a gap in the literature, this study examines how race, gender, and prestige are related to endowed and distinguished faculty of education. Specifically, this study seeks to ascertain the makeup of higher education with regard to faculty diversity: what processes are at work that serve to recreate the status quo in terms of faculty of higher education? Or, are higher education faculty members becoming more diverse as homogeneous cohorts ret…
Survey Scales
Mixed Mode Latent Class Analysis
This Monte Carlo study examines the performance of fit indices commonly used by applied researchers interested in finite mixture modeling for the purposes of classification. Conditions for the simulation study were selected to reflect conditions found in applied educational and psychological research. The factors included in the investigation were metric level of indicators, sample size, and class prevalence. All models contained a combination of…
Why Women Sit
A Comparison of Diagonal Weighted Least Squares Robust Estimation Techniques for Ordinal Data
This study compared diagonal weighted least squares robust estimation techniques available in 2 popular statistical programs: diagonal weighted least squares (DWLS; LISREL version 8.80) and weighted least squares–mean (WLSM) and weighted least squares—mean and variance adjusted (WLSMV; Mplus version 6.11). A 20-item confirmatory factor analysis was estimated using item-level ordered categorical data. Three different nonnormality conditions were a…
Physical and social environmental characteristics of physical activity for Mexican-origin children
These results suggest a complex relationship between dimensions of economic hardship (employment status, household income, etc...) and perceived opportunities and barriers of children's physical activity engagement during the school-year and summer. In this study, both barriers and opportunities increased from school-year to summer, further demonstrating that interactions among these characteristics need to be better understood and addressed when…
Construct Validity of the Children’s Music-Related Behavior Questionnaire
The purpose of this research was to investigate the construct validity of the Children’s Music-Related Behavior Questionnaire (CMRBQ), an instrument designed for parents to document music-related behaviors about their children and themselves. The research problem was to examine the hypothesized factorial structure of the questionnaire. From a national sample, parents of children 5 years old or younger returned 616 usable questionnaires. Items wer…
A National Analysis of Endowed Chairs and Distinguished Professors in the Field of Education
Noting a gap in the literature, this study examines how race, gender, and prestige are related to endowed and distinguished faculty of education. Specifically, this study seeks to ascertain the makeup of higher education with regard to faculty diversity: what processes are at work that serve to recreate the status quo in terms of faculty of higher education? Or, are higher education faculty members becoming more diverse as homogeneous cohorts ret…
Construct Validity of the Children’s Music-Related Behavior Questionnaire
The purpose of this research was to investigate the construct validity of the Children’s Music-Related Behavior Questionnaire (CMRBQ), an instrument designed for parents to document music-related behaviors about their children and themselves. The research problem was to examine the hypothesized factorial structure of the questionnaire. From a national sample, parents of children 5 years old or younger returned 616 usable questionnaires. Items wer…
Construct Validity of the Children’s Music-Related Behavior Questionnaire
The purpose of this research was to investigate the construct validity of the Children’s Music-Related Behavior Questionnaire (CMRBQ), an instrument designed for parents to document music-related behaviors about their children and themselves. The research problem was to examine the hypothesized factorial structure of the questionnaire. From a national sample, parents of children 5 years old or younger returned 616 usable questionnaires. Items wer…
A Comparison of Diagonal Weighted Least Squares Robust Estimation Techniques for Ordinal Data
This study compared diagonal weighted least squares robust estimation techniques available in 2 popular statistical programs: diagonal weighted least squares (DWLS; LISREL version 8.80) and weighted least squares–mean (WLSM) and weighted least squares—mean and variance adjusted (WLSMV; Mplus version 6.11). A 20-item confirmatory factor analysis was estimated using item-level ordered categorical data. Three different nonnormality conditions were a…
Physical and social environmental characteristics of physical activity for Mexican-origin children
These results suggest a complex relationship between dimensions of economic hardship (employment status, household income, etc...) and perceived opportunities and barriers of children's physical activity engagement during the school-year and summer. In this study, both barriers and opportunities increased from school-year to summer, further demonstrating that interactions among these characteristics need to be better understood and addressed when…
Mixed Mode Latent Class Analysis
This Monte Carlo study examines the performance of fit indices commonly used by applied researchers interested in finite mixture modeling for the purposes of classification. Conditions for the simulation study were selected to reflect conditions found in applied educational and psychological research. The factors included in the investigation were metric level of indicators, sample size, and class prevalence. All models contained a combination of…
Why Women Sit
A National Analysis of Endowed Chairs and Distinguished Professors in the Field of Education
Noting a gap in the literature, this study examines how race, gender, and prestige are related to endowed and distinguished faculty of education. Specifically, this study seeks to ascertain the makeup of higher education with regard to faculty diversity: what processes are at work that serve to recreate the status quo in terms of faculty of higher education? Or, are higher education faculty members becoming more diverse as homogeneous cohorts ret…
Survey Scales
The influence of time attitudes on adolescent alcohol use behaviours
Time Perspective researchers are concerned with the way in which a combination of thoughts and feelings about the past, present and future influence behaviour. Time attitudes comprise a dimension of time perspective where the focus is narrowed to evaluative feelings about the three time periods. The present study included four waves of data gathered in the United Kingdom, and focused on time attitudes. Participants were adolescents in High school…
Wellbeing Indices
Generating Nonnormal Distributions via Gaussian Mixture Models
The purpose of this paper is to (1) present a method of generating nonnormal univariate and/or uncorrelated multivariate distributions using mixture models, and (2) compare the accuracy of generating nonnormal distributions using the mixture-based method against power transformation method and generalized lambda method. Monte Carlo methods were used to generate data with each of the three nonnormal generation techniques to manipulate levels of sk…
Multilevel Latent Transition Mixture Modeling
Person-centered methodologies generally refer to those that take unobserved heterogeneity of populations into account. The use of person-centered methodologies has proliferated, which is likely due to a number of factors, such as methodological advances coupled with increased personal computing power and ease of software use. Using latent class analysis and its extension for longitudinal data, [latent transition analysis (LTA)], multiple underlyi…
Collapsing Categories is Often More Advantageous than Modeling Sparse Data
When questionnaires include Likert scales, items endorsed by relatively few respondents may result from characteristics of examinees or the constructs under study. Researchers may collapse categories to increase cell sample size; however, effects of this practice have not been systematically investigated. A five-point ordinal scale was simulated where data included few responses in extreme categories. Different estimators were applied to sparsely…
Multilevel CFA with Ordered Categorical Data
Within a multilevel confirmatory factor analysis framework, we investigated the ability of commonly used fit indices to discriminate between correctly specified models and misspecified models. Receiver operating characteristics (ROC) analyses were used to evaluate the performance of fit indices. Combining ROC analyses with checks of the convergence rates across Monte Carlo replications and ANOVA for investigating the variation in fit scores acros…
Collective leadership
Collective leadership of teachers and administrators can be a vehicle for catalyzing school improvement. In chemistry, a catalyst is any substance that increases the rate of reaction without itself being consumed. Leadership that accelerates good work without using up the leader is increasingly necessary. We identified schools that demonstrated exemplary Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematical (STEM) learning. Using a theoretical model…
Does change in faith maturity reflect maturation? Establishing strict measurement invariance for the Faith Maturity Scale across time
Revalidating the religious/spiritually integrated practice assessment scale for educators across four mental health disciplines
This paper describes the validation of the Religious/Spiritually Integrated Practice Assessment Scale for Educators (RSIPAS-EDU) with a diverse sample of faculty in social work, counseling, marriage and family therapy, and psychology. Full-time faculty at accredited graduate schools across disciplines were invited to participate in an online survey that included the RSIPAS-EDU, and 1,742 completed it. Results support the RSIPAS-EDU as a reliable …
Is Mindfulness the Common Ground Between Mental Toughness and Self-Compassion in Student Athletes? A Cross-Sectional Study
This study interrogates whether mental toughness (MT) and self-compassion (SC)—historically framed as oppositional constructs—can coexist synergistically among NCAA Division II, III, and NAIA collegiate athletes, with mindfulness as a hypothesized mediator. A cross-sectional survey of 396 participants (mean age: 19.8 yrs ± 1.9 SD; females: 51%), revealed a robust MT–SC correlation (r = 0.46), which attenuated to 0.31 when mindfulness was modeled,…
Serving Youth with Disabilities and Mental Health Conditions
Disabilities and mental health conditions are common among adolescents, yet little is known about how youth ministry leaders encounter and approach this population. We surveyed 184 Christian youth ministry leaders across 37 states regarding the presence of these youth within their congregations, as well as their confidence and feelings related to implementing inclusive ministry practices. Nearly all leaders reported the presence of youth with var…
The religious and spiritual beliefs and practices of mental health educators
Currently, little is known about the religious and spiritual (RS) beliefs and practices of faculty in graduate mental health training programs. Here, we analyze data from a recent survey of 1,956 faculty in accredited counseling, marriage and family therapy, psychology, and social work programs across the U.S. to provide the first national assessment of RS beliefs and practices of faculty in these disciplines. Results indicate that many hold RS b…
Psychology (10 works) · Mathematics (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Statistics (7 works) · Econometrics (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (4 works) · Categorical variable (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works)