Randall C Macintosh
Biographic Data
| ID | 4393483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Randall C Macintosh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Randall C |
| FAMILY NAME | Macintosh |
| SIGNATURE | MACINTOSH R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Sacramento |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 178 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Anes Scales Often Do Not Measure What You Think They Measure
Political surveys often include multi-item scales to measure individual predispositions such as authoritarianism, egalitarianism, or racial resentment. Scholars use these scales to examine group differences in these predispositions, comparing women to men, rich to poor, or Republicans to Democrats. Such research implicitly assumes that, say, Republicans' and Democrats' responses to the egalitarianism scale measure the same construct in the same m…
An Analysis of Anes Items and Their Use in the Construction of Political Knowledge Scales
Valid comparisons of group scores on additive measures such as political knowledge scales require that the conditional response probabilities for individuals on the observed items be invariant across groups after controlling for their overall level of the latent trait of interest. Using a multi-group confirmatory factor analysis of knowledge items drawn from American National Election Studies, we find that the scales used in recent research are n…
A Rasch Differential Item Functioning Analysis of the Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument
The juvenile justice system needs a tool that can identify and assess mental health problems among youths quickly with validity and reliability. The goal of this article is to evaluate the racial/ethnic and gender differential item functioning (DIF) of the Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument-Second Version (MAYSI-2) using the Rasch Model. Data are presented from 3,906 assessments of male and female juvenile offenders between 13 and 17 years …
What’s There and What’s Not
Objective: A review of current empirical research on adolescent stress reveals that measures of stress were developed using primarily suburban adolescents. However, there has not been a thorough examination of stressors that specifically affect urban minority adolescents. This article discusses the findings from the Urban Hassles Scale (UHS). Method: A nonrandom sample of 131 African American adolescents was surveyed to assess the stressors withi…
Criminal Charge or Probation Violation? Prosecutorial Discretion and Implications for Research in Criminal Court Processing
Feeney et al. (1983) observe that arrests not resulting in convictions may nonetheless receive substantial punishment through reliance on alternative, less formal, means of imposing sanctions. Utilizing a sample of 1427 domestic violence cases supplemented by interviews with prosecutors, we analyze this phenomenon. We conclude that the majority of cases disposed by such means originate as new criminal charges, which are then rejected or dismissed…
The Validity of a Self-reported Delinquency Scale
Self-reported delinquency scales have been widely adopted by researchers seeking to measure delinquency. Establishing the validity of these scales is critical because if valid measures are not created, findings about the correlates of delinquency will be of limited use in testing theory and formulating public policy. In this article, the authors use data from the first wave of the National Youth Survey to examine the measurement properties of a c…
Applying Rasch modeling to the validity of a control balance scale
Does Self‐control Affect Survey Response? Applying Exploratory, Confirmatory, and Item Response Theory Analysis to Grasmick Et Al.'s Self‐control Scale
Gottfredson and Hirschi's (1990) A General Theory of Crime has sparked a great deal of theoretical debate and empirical investigation. Tests of the theory have focused on measuring the core element, the latent trait of self‐control. The majority of this research has used the 24‐item scale developed by Grasmick et al. (1993), and a great deal of attention has been directed at the validity of this scale. Empirical debate revolves around the unidime…
A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Affect Balance Scale in 38 Nations
The Affect Balance Scale (ABS) is a widely used measure of social psychological well-being. This study applies confirmatory factor analysis to assess the validity of the positive and negative subscales for use in cross-national research. Results show that the data collected in the World Values Survey do not fit the model developed by Bradburn (1969) in any of the 38 countries surveyed. As many as four factors are required to fit these data. Criti…
Global Attitude Measurement
The World Values Survey is the product of an unprecedented collaboration of investigators from five continents. Using this survey, an international postmaterialism scale was developed. This scale shows a worldwide trend away from concerns with material well-being toward a postmaterialist value system that emphasizes the free expression of ideas, greater democratization, and the development of more humane societies. The author tests the assumption…
Does Self‐control Affect Survey Response? Applying Exploratory, Confirmatory, and Item Response Theory Analysis to Grasmick Et Al.'s Self‐control Scale
Gottfredson and Hirschi's (1990) A General Theory of Crime has sparked a great deal of theoretical debate and empirical investigation. Tests of the theory have focused on measuring the core element, the latent trait of self‐control. The majority of this research has used the 24‐item scale developed by Grasmick et al. (1993), and a great deal of attention has been directed at the validity of this scale. Empirical debate revolves around the unidime…
The Validity of a Self-reported Delinquency Scale
Self-reported delinquency scales have been widely adopted by researchers seeking to measure delinquency. Establishing the validity of these scales is critical because if valid measures are not created, findings about the correlates of delinquency will be of limited use in testing theory and formulating public policy. In this article, the authors use data from the first wave of the National Youth Survey to examine the measurement properties of a c…
An Analysis of Anes Items and Their Use in the Construction of Political Knowledge Scales
Valid comparisons of group scores on additive measures such as political knowledge scales require that the conditional response probabilities for individuals on the observed items be invariant across groups after controlling for their overall level of the latent trait of interest. Using a multi-group confirmatory factor analysis of knowledge items drawn from American National Election Studies, we find that the scales used in recent research are n…
Global Attitude Measurement
The World Values Survey is the product of an unprecedented collaboration of investigators from five continents. Using this survey, an international postmaterialism scale was developed. This scale shows a worldwide trend away from concerns with material well-being toward a postmaterialist value system that emphasizes the free expression of ideas, greater democratization, and the development of more humane societies. The author tests the assumption…
Criminal Charge or Probation Violation? Prosecutorial Discretion and Implications for Research in Criminal Court Processing
Feeney et al. (1983) observe that arrests not resulting in convictions may nonetheless receive substantial punishment through reliance on alternative, less formal, means of imposing sanctions. Utilizing a sample of 1427 domestic violence cases supplemented by interviews with prosecutors, we analyze this phenomenon. We conclude that the majority of cases disposed by such means originate as new criminal charges, which are then rejected or dismissed…
Anes Scales Often Do Not Measure What You Think They Measure
Political surveys often include multi-item scales to measure individual predispositions such as authoritarianism, egalitarianism, or racial resentment. Scholars use these scales to examine group differences in these predispositions, comparing women to men, rich to poor, or Republicans to Democrats. Such research implicitly assumes that, say, Republicans' and Democrats' responses to the egalitarianism scale measure the same construct in the same m…
What’s There and What’s Not
Objective: A review of current empirical research on adolescent stress reveals that measures of stress were developed using primarily suburban adolescents. However, there has not been a thorough examination of stressors that specifically affect urban minority adolescents. This article discusses the findings from the Urban Hassles Scale (UHS). Method: A nonrandom sample of 131 African American adolescents was surveyed to assess the stressors withi…
Applying Rasch modeling to the validity of a control balance scale
A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Affect Balance Scale in 38 Nations
The Affect Balance Scale (ABS) is a widely used measure of social psychological well-being. This study applies confirmatory factor analysis to assess the validity of the positive and negative subscales for use in cross-national research. Results show that the data collected in the World Values Survey do not fit the model developed by Bradburn (1969) in any of the 38 countries surveyed. As many as four factors are required to fit these data. Criti…
A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Affect Balance Scale in 38 Nations
The Affect Balance Scale (ABS) is a widely used measure of social psychological well-being. This study applies confirmatory factor analysis to assess the validity of the positive and negative subscales for use in cross-national research. Results show that the data collected in the World Values Survey do not fit the model developed by Bradburn (1969) in any of the 38 countries surveyed. As many as four factors are required to fit these data. Criti…
Global Attitude Measurement
The World Values Survey is the product of an unprecedented collaboration of investigators from five continents. Using this survey, an international postmaterialism scale was developed. This scale shows a worldwide trend away from concerns with material well-being toward a postmaterialist value system that emphasizes the free expression of ideas, greater democratization, and the development of more humane societies. The author tests the assumption…
Does Self‐control Affect Survey Response? Applying Exploratory, Confirmatory, and Item Response Theory Analysis to Grasmick Et Al.'s Self‐control Scale
Gottfredson and Hirschi's (1990) A General Theory of Crime has sparked a great deal of theoretical debate and empirical investigation. Tests of the theory have focused on measuring the core element, the latent trait of self‐control. The majority of this research has used the 24‐item scale developed by Grasmick et al. (1993), and a great deal of attention has been directed at the validity of this scale. Empirical debate revolves around the unidime…
Applying Rasch modeling to the validity of a control balance scale
What’s There and What’s Not
Objective: A review of current empirical research on adolescent stress reveals that measures of stress were developed using primarily suburban adolescents. However, there has not been a thorough examination of stressors that specifically affect urban minority adolescents. This article discusses the findings from the Urban Hassles Scale (UHS). Method: A nonrandom sample of 131 African American adolescents was surveyed to assess the stressors withi…
Criminal Charge or Probation Violation? Prosecutorial Discretion and Implications for Research in Criminal Court Processing
Feeney et al. (1983) observe that arrests not resulting in convictions may nonetheless receive substantial punishment through reliance on alternative, less formal, means of imposing sanctions. Utilizing a sample of 1427 domestic violence cases supplemented by interviews with prosecutors, we analyze this phenomenon. We conclude that the majority of cases disposed by such means originate as new criminal charges, which are then rejected or dismissed…
The Validity of a Self-reported Delinquency Scale
Self-reported delinquency scales have been widely adopted by researchers seeking to measure delinquency. Establishing the validity of these scales is critical because if valid measures are not created, findings about the correlates of delinquency will be of limited use in testing theory and formulating public policy. In this article, the authors use data from the first wave of the National Youth Survey to examine the measurement properties of a c…
A Rasch Differential Item Functioning Analysis of the Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument
The juvenile justice system needs a tool that can identify and assess mental health problems among youths quickly with validity and reliability. The goal of this article is to evaluate the racial/ethnic and gender differential item functioning (DIF) of the Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument-Second Version (MAYSI-2) using the Rasch Model. Data are presented from 3,906 assessments of male and female juvenile offenders between 13 and 17 years …
An Analysis of Anes Items and Their Use in the Construction of Political Knowledge Scales
Valid comparisons of group scores on additive measures such as political knowledge scales require that the conditional response probabilities for individuals on the observed items be invariant across groups after controlling for their overall level of the latent trait of interest. Using a multi-group confirmatory factor analysis of knowledge items drawn from American National Election Studies, we find that the scales used in recent research are n…
Anes Scales Often Do Not Measure What You Think They Measure
Political surveys often include multi-item scales to measure individual predispositions such as authoritarianism, egalitarianism, or racial resentment. Scholars use these scales to examine group differences in these predispositions, comparing women to men, rich to poor, or Republicans to Democrats. Such research implicitly assumes that, say, Republicans' and Democrats' responses to the egalitarianism scale measure the same construct in the same m…
Psychology (10 works) · Psychometrics (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Item response theory (5 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Scale (ratio (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Econometrics (4 works)