Francisco J Abad
Biographic Data
| ID | 4621006 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francisco J Abad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francisco J |
| FAMILY NAME | Abad |
| SIGNATURE | ABAD F J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6728-2709 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Dimensionality Assessment in Forced-Choice Questionnaires
Forced-choice (FC) questionnaires have gained increasing attention as a strategy to reduce social desirability in self-reports, supported by advancements in confirmatory models that address the ipsativity of FC test scores. However, these models assume a known dimensionality and structure, which can be overly restrictive or fail to fit the data adequately. Consequently, exploratory models can be required, with accurate dimensionality assessment a…
Support of the Dimensionality and Internal Consistency of the Generalized Problematic Internet Use Scale-2
The field of problematic Internet use (PIU) has seen significant academic interest in recent years. In the absence of a universally accepted definition of PIU, a multitude of scales have been developed to evaluate it. Notably, the Generalized Problematic Internet Use Scale 2 (GPIUS-2), formulated on the cognitive-behavioral model by Caplan, emerges as a significant instrument in this domain. This research conducts a systematic review and meta-ana…
Equally vs. unequally keyed blocks in forced-choice questionnaires
Forced-choice (FC) questionnaires have gained scientific interest over the last decades. However, the inclusion of unequally keyed item pairs in FC questionnaires remains a subject of debate, as there is evidence supporting both their usage and avoidance. Designing unequally keyed pairs may be more difficult when considering social desirability, as they might allow the identification of ideal responses. Nevertheless, they may enhance the reliabil…
A Systematic Evaluation of Wording Effects Modeling Under the Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling Framework
Wording effects, the systematic method variance arising from the inconsistent responding to positively and negatively worded items of the same construct, are pervasive in the behavioral and health sciences. Although several factor modeling strategies have been proposed to mitigate their adverse effects, there is limited systematic research assessing their performance with exploratory structural equation models (ESEM). The present study evaluated …
The use of Psychometric Tests for Personality Assessment in Public Administration Personnel Selection Processes
The evaluation of non-cognitive variables, such as personality factors, is key in personnel selection processes in public administration, although its application presents certain challenges. This article addresses the need to ensure the validity of these processes by integrating the principles of transparency and publicity with best practices in the use of tests. Based on the report from the Test Commission of the General Council of the Spanish …
Tenth Review of Tests Published in Spain
Tests are fundamental to psychology, and their use should always be supported by solid evidence. Since 2010, the National Test Commission of the General Council of the Spanish Psychological Association has been carrying out annual evaluations, using the Test Evaluation Questionnaire-Revised (CET-R) with the collaboration of external experts. To date, 96 tests have been evaluated. This tenth edition includes six tests from three well-known publish…
Exploratory Bi-factor Analysis with Multiple General Factors
Exploratory bi-factor analysis (EBFA) is a very popular approach to estimate models where specific factors are concomitant to a single, general dimension. However, the models typically encountered in fields like personality, intelligence, and psychopathology involve more than one general factor. To address this circumstance, we developed an algorithm (GSLiD) based on partially specified targets to perform exploratory bi-factor analysis with multi…
Evidence on the Bidirectional Relationship Between Health and Life Satisfaction in Older Adults
Previous research on health and life satisfaction in older adults has suggested a bidirectional relationship. However, most evidence either is based on cross-sectional data, being unsuitable for inferring any directionality on the results, or disregards the within-person stability of both variables over time, thus providing potentially biased results. We analysed data from 11,667 older adults interviewed between 2008 and 2016 within the English L…
Dámaso Alonso
La Barbarie De La Ignorancia. George Steiner en Diálogo Con Antoine Spire (Madrid
Harold Bloom
Claudio Guillén
Materiales para una semiótica de la cultura española (siglos XVI a XIX)
George Steiner
Trayectoria crítica de José Fernández Montesinos
La crisis del positivismo (Vossler, Bajtín, Ortega)
Peirce, Jakobson y la esencia de la literatura y del lenguaje
Construyendo test adaptativos de elección forzosa "on the fly" para la medición de la personalidad
"Los nuevos desarrollos metodológicos y tecnológicos de la última década permiten resolver, o al menos atenuar, los problemas psicométricos de los test de elección forzosa (EF) para la medición de la personalidad. En estas pruebas, a la persona evaluada se le muestran bloques de dos o más frases de parecida deseabilidad social, entre las que debe elegir aquella que le represente mejor. De esta manera, los test de EF buscan reducir los sesgos de r…
On Omega Hierarchical Estimation
As general factor modeling continues to grow in popularity, researchers have become interested in assessing how reliable general factor scores are. Even though omega hierarchical estimation has been suggested as a useful tool in this context, little is known about how to approximate it using modern bi-factor exploratory factor analysis methods. This study is the first to compare how omega hierarchical estimates were recovered by six alternative a…
Otros datos sobre la trayectoria de la palabra «literatura» en castellano
Vamos a llevar a cabo algunas anotaciones acerca de la marcha de la palabra literatura en nuestra lengua: estamos ante una de las palabras fundamentales del ámbito de la filología que aún espera la reconstrucción en detalle de su historia, historia que por supuesto no hemos trazado tampoco nosotros por completo todavía
Reconsidering Cutoff Points in the General Method of Empirical Q-Matrix Validation
Cognitive diagnosis models (CDMs) are latent class multidimensional statistical models that help classify people accurately by using a set of discrete latent variables, commonly referred to as attributes. These models require a Q-matrix that indicates the attributes involved in each item. A potential problem is that the Q-matrix construction process, typically performed by domain experts, is subjective in nature. This might lead to the existence …
Iteration of Partially Specified Target Matrices
The current study proposes a new bi-factor rotation method, Schmid-Leiman with iterative target rotation (SLi), based on the iteration of partially specified target matrices and an initial target constructed from a Schmid-Leiman (SL) orthogonalization. SLi was expected to ameliorate some of the limitations of the previously presented SL bi-factor rotations, SL and SL with target rotation (SLt), when the factor structure either includes cross-load…
Measurement invariance of the WHOQOL-AGE questionnaire across three European countries
Exploratory factor analysis in validation studies
BACKGROUND: The Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) procedure is one of the most commonly used in social and behavioral sciences. However, it is also one of the most criticized due to the poor management researchers usually display. The main goal is to examine the relationship between practices usually considered more appropriate and actual decisions made by researchers. METHOD: The use of exploratory factor analysis is examined in 117 papers publi…
A new look at Horn’s parallel analysis with ordinal variables.
Previous research evaluating the performance of Horn's parallel analysis (PA) factor retention method with ordinal variables has produced unexpected findings. Specifically, PA with Pearson correlations has performed as well as or better than PA with the more theoretically appropriate polychoric correlations. Seeking to clarify these findings, the current study employed a more comprehensive simulation study that included the systematic manipulatio…
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Generational Changes on the Draw-a-Man Test
Although gains in generational intelligence test scores have been widely demonstrated around the world, researchers still do not know what has caused them. The cognitive stimulation and nutritional hypotheses summarize the several diverse potential causes that have been considered. This article analyses data for a sample of 499 children tested in 1930 and one equivalent sample of 710 children tested 72 years later, the largest gap ever considered…
Measurement of Epistemological Beliefs
This article proposes a new test (called the EQEBI) for the measurement of epistemological beliefs, integrating and extending the Epistemological Questionnaire (EQ) and the Epistemic Beliefs Inventory (EBI). In Study 1, the two tests were translated and applied to a Spanish-speaking sample. A detailed dimensionality exploration, by means of the monotone homogeneity model and confirmatory factor analysis, provides unexpected dimensionality results…
Informação geral e atual e sua relação com a inteligência e a personalidade em crianças escolares
Investiga-se a relação entre inteligência, personalidade e nível de informação geral e atual de escolares do Estado de Minas Gerais. Duas amostras participaram do estudo: a primeira proveniente de escolas de três níveis de vulnerabilidade social de Belo Horizonte (MG) (n=600), e a segunda de escolas municipais da cidade de Perdões (MG) (n=215). Ambas as amostras foram submetidas ao teste Raven e ao Questionário de Informações Gerais e Atuais. A s…
Avaliação multi-informe do traço de neuroticismo em escolares
A presente investigação avalia o traço de neuroticismo em escolares por meio de metodologia multi-informe que inclui autorrelato, heterorrelato, entrevista semiestruturada e observação comportamental. Especificamente, objetiva identificar o grau de concordância na avaliação de neuroticismo entre as várias fontes de informação utilizadas. A amostra [N=368] constitui parte do "Estudo Longitudinal de Avaliação das Competências Psicológicas das Crian…
Assessing Goodness of Fit in Item Response Theory With Nonparametric Models
The distance between nonparametric and parametric item characteristic curves has been proposed as an index of goodness of fit in item response theory in the form of a root integrated squared error index. This article proposes to use the posterior distribution of the latent trait as the nonparametric model and compares the performance of an index based on this method with another approach based on the kernel-smoothing model. Error rates and power …
Performance of Velicer’s Minimum Average Partial Factor Retention Method With Categorical Variables
Despite strong evidence supporting the use of Velicer’s minimum average partial (MAP) method to establish the dimensionality of continuous variables, little is known about its performance with categorical data. Seeking to fill this void, the current study takes an in-depth look at the performance of the MAP procedure in the presence of ordinal-level measurement. Using Monte Carlo methods, seven factors related to the data (sample size, factor loa…
A new look at Horn’s parallel analysis with ordinal variables.
Previous research evaluating the performance of Horn's parallel analysis (PA) factor retention method with ordinal variables has produced unexpected findings. Specifically, PA with Pearson correlations has performed as well as or better than PA with the more theoretically appropriate polychoric correlations. Seeking to clarify these findings, the current study employed a more comprehensive simulation study that included the systematic manipulatio…
Ritmo y rima
Se definen en poesía y en música los conceptos de «ritmo» y de «rima», y se traza la historia lexicográfica de esas palabras en español.The aim of this article is to define the concepts of «rhythm» and «rhyme», and to trace the lexicographic history of these two words in Spanish
Exploratory factor analysis in validation studies
BACKGROUND: The Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) procedure is one of the most commonly used in social and behavioral sciences. However, it is also one of the most criticized due to the poor management researchers usually display. The main goal is to examine the relationship between practices usually considered more appropriate and actual decisions made by researchers. METHOD: The use of exploratory factor analysis is examined in 117 papers publi…
Iteration of Partially Specified Target Matrices
The current study proposes a new bi-factor rotation method, Schmid-Leiman with iterative target rotation (SLi), based on the iteration of partially specified target matrices and an initial target constructed from a Schmid-Leiman (SL) orthogonalization. SLi was expected to ameliorate some of the limitations of the previously presented SL bi-factor rotations, SL and SL with target rotation (SLt), when the factor structure either includes cross-load…
Measurement invariance of the WHOQOL-AGE questionnaire across three European countries
Reconsidering Cutoff Points in the General Method of Empirical Q-Matrix Validation
Cognitive diagnosis models (CDMs) are latent class multidimensional statistical models that help classify people accurately by using a set of discrete latent variables, commonly referred to as attributes. These models require a Q-matrix that indicates the attributes involved in each item. A potential problem is that the Q-matrix construction process, typically performed by domain experts, is subjective in nature. This might lead to the existence …
Construyendo test adaptativos de elección forzosa "on the fly" para la medición de la personalidad
"Los nuevos desarrollos metodológicos y tecnológicos de la última década permiten resolver, o al menos atenuar, los problemas psicométricos de los test de elección forzosa (EF) para la medición de la personalidad. En estas pruebas, a la persona evaluada se le muestran bloques de dos o más frases de parecida deseabilidad social, entre las que debe elegir aquella que le represente mejor. De esta manera, los test de EF buscan reducir los sesgos de r…
On Omega Hierarchical Estimation
As general factor modeling continues to grow in popularity, researchers have become interested in assessing how reliable general factor scores are. Even though omega hierarchical estimation has been suggested as a useful tool in this context, little is known about how to approximate it using modern bi-factor exploratory factor analysis methods. This study is the first to compare how omega hierarchical estimates were recovered by six alternative a…
Otros datos sobre la trayectoria de la palabra «literatura» en castellano
Vamos a llevar a cabo algunas anotaciones acerca de la marcha de la palabra literatura en nuestra lengua: estamos ante una de las palabras fundamentales del ámbito de la filología que aún espera la reconstrucción en detalle de su historia, historia que por supuesto no hemos trazado tampoco nosotros por completo todavía
Evidence on the Bidirectional Relationship Between Health and Life Satisfaction in Older Adults
Previous research on health and life satisfaction in older adults has suggested a bidirectional relationship. However, most evidence either is based on cross-sectional data, being unsuitable for inferring any directionality on the results, or disregards the within-person stability of both variables over time, thus providing potentially biased results. We analysed data from 11,667 older adults interviewed between 2008 and 2016 within the English L…
Dámaso Alonso
La Barbarie De La Ignorancia. George Steiner en Diálogo Con Antoine Spire (Madrid
Harold Bloom
Claudio Guillén
Materiales para una semiótica de la cultura española (siglos XVI a XIX)
George Steiner
Trayectoria crítica de José Fernández Montesinos
La crisis del positivismo (Vossler, Bajtín, Ortega)
Peirce, Jakobson y la esencia de la literatura y del lenguaje
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