A Ralph Hakstian
Biographic Data
| ID | 5091350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Ralph Hakstian |
| GIVEN NAMES | A Ralph |
| FAMILY NAME | Hakstian |
| SIGNATURE | HAKSTIAN A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Employment-Related Motivational Distortion: Its Nature, Measurement, and Reduction
The behavioral variable employment-related motivational distortion (EMD) was defined and measured. In Study 1, a sample of 250 undergraduates completed the California Psychological Inventory (CPI), Form 434, on two separate occasions in which they responded (a) honestly and (b) as if applying for a job they valued. Four different change measures indexed participants’ response changes between the two conditions on a CPI-based scale measuring count…
The Nature and Measurement of Emotional Intelligence Abilities: Basic Dimensions and Their Relationships with Other Cognitive Ability and Personality Variables
Dimensions of Emotional Intelligence (EI) were derived, and their place with respect to the cognitive ability and personality domains was examined. A factor analysis of 24 maximum-performance and self-report EI measures administered to an undergraduate sample ( N= 176) yielded five factors: Emotional Congruence, Emotional Independence, Social Perceptiveness, Alexithymia, and Social Confidence. Emotional Congruence had lowcorrelations with four co…
Toward More Robust Inferential Procedures for Coefficient Alpha Under Sampling of Both Subjects and Conditions
Barchard and Hakstian (1997b) demonstrated that inferential procedures used with coefficient alpha are not robust under sampling of both subjects and conditions (Type 12 sampling) with measurement data departing from essentially-parallel form. In the first of 2 studies reported here, a sample-based, non-analytical degrees-of-freedom correction factor was empirically developed that correlated almost perfectly with the independently-established cor…
In-Basket Assessment by Fully Objective Methods: Development and Evaluation of a Self-Report System
The feasibility and efficacy of employing self-report response methods with an In-Basket exercise were examined via two studies. In Study 1, with 258 managers, dimension scores obtained by both self-report and traditional scoring (of the same exercise) were cross-correlated, with most correlations between corresponding scores reaching unity after disattenuation. Internal consistency coefficients were higher for the self-report form than for the t…
The Effects of Sampling Model on Inference with Coefficient Alpha
The distinction between Type I and Type 12 sampling in connection with measurement data is discussed, and a method is presented for simulating data arising from Type 12 sampling. Next, an empirical study is described in which the perfornance of inferential procedures for coefficient alpha was examined when these procedures were applied with data arising from both kinds of sampling. The results indicate that as long as the data are drawn from a po…
The Robustness of Confidence Intervals for Coefficient Alpha Under Violation of the Assumption of Essential Parallelism
Two methods exist for setting confidence intervals for coefficient alpha: Feldt's (1965) exact F-distribution method and Hakstian and Whalen's (1976) asymptotic normal-theory procedure. These methods both assume that items are essentially parallel. Two studies, employing Type 12 sampling, are reported in which the effects of violating this assumption are examined. The results indicate that as long as the data manifest the properties of essential …
An Examination of the Construct Validity of Personality-Based and Overt Measures of Integrity
Interest in integrity testing has grown extensively in recent years. A number of tests have been published designed to measure aspects of what has been variously termed honesty, delinquency, conscientiousness, and reliability. Many of these measures bear very close resemblance to one another and to mainstream personality scales whose publication dates stretch back some 40 years. In the present study, the authors examined the construct validity of…
Two Fortran Programs for Testing Hypotheses about Partially Disattenuated Correlation Coefficients: Parti and Partd
The recent development of inferential theory for correlation coefficients corrected for attenuation in one variable-coefficients termed partially disattenuated correlation coefficients (PDCCs)-has lead to hypothesis-testing procedures for these coefficients. The present article contains a description of two mainframe FORTRAN programs that permit the researcher to test hypotheses about PDCCs obtained according to one of four measurement models. On…
Management Selection by Multiple-Domain Assessment: I. Concurrent Validity
A large-scale concurrent validity study is described in which 321 first-level management employees in a Canadian provincial telephone company were given a comprehensive assessment battery and were rated on their work performance. Measures from five assessment domains-cognitive abilities, personality/motivational traits, administrative skills, biodata, and supervisory judgment were administered in one-day assessment sessions. Independent assessmen…
Two Fortran Programs for Testing Hypotheses about Fully Disattenuated Correlation Coefficients: Atteni and Attend
Recent advances in the development of asymptotic theory concerning correction coefficients corrected for attentuation due to unreliability have resulted in large-sample inferential procedures where none existed before. The present article describes two FORTRAN programs written for mainframe use. The first of these is for use with disattenuated correlations obtained from independent samples; the second is for inferential tests with dependent-sampl…
Management Selection by Multiple-Domain Assessment: II. Utility to the Organization
The utility of a multiple-domain assessment approach to management selection was examined in detail. On the basis of concurrent validity results obtained in a recent large-scale validity study by the present authors, the issue of utility, or concrete gains, that the participating organization would realize was investigated from a number of different perspectives and through use of several different utility models. In addition, some new procedures…
The revised Psychopathy Checklist: Reliability and factor structure.
The revised Psychopathy Checklist (PCL) is a 20-item scale scored from interview and file informa-tion. Analyses of data from 5 prison samples (N = 92 5) and 3 forensic psychiatric samples (N = 356) indicate that the revised PCL resembles its 22-item predecessor in all important respects. It has excellent psychometric properties, and it measures 2 correlated factors that were cross-validated both within and between samples. Correlations between t…
Two-factor conceptualization of psychopathy: Construct validity and assessment implications.
Two correlated factors have been identified in the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL), a valide and reliable instrument for the assessment of psychopathy in male prison populations. Factor 1 measures a selfish, remorseless, and exploitative use of others, and Factor 2 measures a chronically unstable and antisocial life-style. We examined the psychometric properties of the factor solutions and a variety of correlates of the two factors
Validity of a Large-Scale Assessment Battery in an Industrial Setting
This article contains a description of a validity study carried out with 238 employees of a large telephone company. Cognitive ability tests, including measures of general intelligence, reading, writing, vocabulary, quantitative ability, and two divergent production abilities, were given. Two personality inventories, the CPI and 16PF, were employed. Two administrative-skills measures derived from a locally-constructed In-Basket exercise completed…
Development and Application of a Quickly-Scored In-Basket Exercise in an Organizational Setting
This article contains a description of the development of an In-Basket exercise designed to be scored quickly by unsophisticated workers. Results are presented of a study using this In-Basket exercise, along with other measures, in a large-scale industrial setting to predict first-level supervisory performance. Reliability results suggested that the two scored dimensions of this exercise possess adequate reliability for most purposes. Correlation…
Validity Studies Using the Comprehensive Ability Battery (CAB): IV. Predicting Achievement at the University Level
Results of two studies are presented in which university-level examinees were administered certain tests of the Comprehensive Ability Battery (CAB). In the first study, 71 male and 95 female university freshmen were given six CAB tests— V, N, Sp, I, Ma, and Cf. Year-end course grades in six subject areas were obtained for use as criteria, and two averages were computed for this purpose as well. The six CAB tests, along with four linear composites…
Effect of a Computerized Ambulatory Medical Record System on the Validity of Claims Data
Relationships were compared between claims data and charts data in a medical practice when a paper chart and manually prepared claims forms were used and after implementation of a computerized medical record system (COSTAR) in which claims data were derived automatically from the medical database. Claims data and chart data resembled each other more closely when the computer system was used, suggesting that claims data derived in this manner may …
The Behavior Of Number-Of-Factors Rules With Simulated Data
issues related to the decision of the number of factors to retain in factor analysis are identified, and three widely-used decision rules -- the Kaiser-Guttman, scree, and likelihood ratio tests -- are isolated for empirical study. Using two differing structural models and incorporating a number of relevant independent variables (such as number of variables, ratio of number of factors to number of variables, variable communality levels, and facto…
A comparison of medical record with billing diagnostic information associated with ambulatory medical care
The degree of similarity between diagnostic information furnished with claims and that simultaneously entered into the medical record was estimated for 1,215 private office visits in British Columbia, Canada. For each visit, claim card and chart diagnoses were compared by having three independent internists (blinded to source and type of the data) make judgments about each diagnostic pair. The judges were highly consistent internally and their ju…
Confidence Intervals For Maximized Alpha Coefficients: An Evaluation Of Joe And Woodward's Procedures And An Alternative Method
The procedures yielding confidence intervals for maximized alpha coefficients of Joe and Woodward are reviewed. Confidence interval procedures of Hakstian, Whalen, and Masson are next reviewed. Results are then presented of a Monte Carlo investigation of the procedures. Of Joe and Woodward's procedures, that derived for the most general case is shown to yield confidence intervals spanning the parameter with probabilities adequately close to nomin…
Validity Studies Using the Comprehensive Ability Battery (Cab): III. Performance in Conjunction With Personality and Motivational Traits
Results of a study are presented in which 129 grade 10 male and female students were measured by batteries from three individual-difference domains: the Comprehensive Ability Battery (CAB), the High School Personality Questionnaire (HSPQ), and the School Motivation Analysis Test (SMAT). Four ability measures from the CAB found previously to be maximally predictive of academic achievement, and three factor scales from each of the personality tempe…
Two-sample T–2 procedure and the assumption of homogeneous covariance matrices
Two-sample T-2 procedure and the assumption of homogeneous covariance matrices
An Examination of Inter-Domain Relationships Among Some Ability and Personality Traits
Linkages between the abilities and personality domains are explicated from the results of a recent study, in which cross-domain correlations between 20 ability variables and 14 personality traits were obtained from a sample of 138 late adolescent males. A model designed to reveal the structure of cross-battery correlations— Tucker's interbattery factor model—was employed, and three interbattery factors were isolated. These inter-domain factors ar…
Validity Studies Using the Comprehensive Ability Battery (Cab): II. Relationships With the Dat and Gatb
Three multiple-abilities batteries—the Comprehensive Ability Battery (CAB), Differential Aptitude Tests (DAT), and General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB)—are briefly discussed, and results of a study involving cross-correlations of the tests in these batteries are presented. The measures included are 11 of the 20 CAB tests, plus two simple composite measures, all eight of the DAT tests, plus two composites, and seven of the eight paper-and-pencil t…
A comparison of medical record with billing diagnostic information associated with ambulatory medical care
The degree of similarity between diagnostic information furnished with claims and that simultaneously entered into the medical record was estimated for 1,215 private office visits in British Columbia, Canada. For each visit, claim card and chart diagnoses were compared by having three independent internists (blinded to source and type of the data) make judgments about each diagnostic pair. The judges were highly consistent internally and their ju…
Measures of Association in Comparative Experiments: Their Development and Interpretation
Measures of Association in Comparative Experiments: Their Development and Interpretation
A Computer Program for Generalized Oblique Procrustes Factor Transformation
A Computer Program for Oblique Factor Transformation Using the Generalized Harris-Kaiser Procedure
A Computer Program for Orthogonal Factor Rotation Using the Generalized “Orthomax” Criterion
An Empirical Investigation of Some Special Cases of the General "Orthomax" Criterion for Orthogonal Factor Transformation
Formulas for Image Factor Scores
Validity and Reliability Consequences of Confidence Weighting
Orthogonal Complexes Maximally Related to Several Sets of Correlated Arrays
Some Notes on the Number of Factors Problem
The epistemological status of factors-that is, components, common factors, and image factors-is briefly discussed. Implications for the number of factors problem, for varying views of factor analysis, and for the particular factor analytic model employed are noted; and the rationales under- lying the best known decision rules regarding the correct number of factors are discussed. The paper presents the results of a study in which reanalyses were …
Procedures for Weighting Factors and Variables in Orthogonal Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Much has been written on the subject of orthogonal confirma- tory factor analysis since Green's (1952) paper-the first dealing with this problem. Using the procrustean or residual least- squares criterion (to be minimized) of the sum of squared discrep- ancies between elements of the target or hypothesis matrix and those of the best fit, Fischer and Roppert (1964) and Kristof (1964) presented solutions essentially the same as Green's, although Gr…
Comparative assessment of multivariate association in psychological research
The Checking of Primary Ability Structure on a Broader Basis of Performances
S ummary . A battery of 57 ability tests, spanning the full range of the ability domain, was administered to 343 young adults. The aims were to confirm the differentiability of the better‐known primary mental abilities and to assess the differentiability of the more recently hypothesised abilities, along with their relationships with the better‐established constructs. A common‐factor analysis of the 57 variables revealed 19 correlated primary abi…
Procedures for Constrained Confirmatory Factor Transformation
Outlined is a model for transformation of one factor matrix to congruence with a second or target matrix in which the correlations among the transformed factors are constrained, to certain pre-specified values. Procedures are developed for implementing the model. and these procedures are illustrated with example factor solutions. Application of the procedures is briefly discussed
Brief Report: Asymmetric Simplicity Criteria for Orthogonal Factor Transformation
The notion of column simplicity in a factor pattern matrix is discussed, and the varimax procedure is shown to be only one way of operatioializing this notion. A general central-moment simplicity criterion is introduced, an the special cases of this formulation that indicate asymmetry are shown t have logical appeal in a constraint-free factor transformation context. The results of implementing these criteria with data, however, suggest that., in…
Sampling And Factor Transformation
Given a population simple structure configuration for a set of data, factor transformation methods can be compared in terms of their ability--with samples drawn from this population--to approximate closely the parameter pattern, and to do so with little sampling variability. A study is reported in which populations of factorially simple and complex data were generated with first the oblique and orthogonal factor models, and then solutions based o…
A K -sample procedure for comparatively assessing multivariate association
A K -sample procedure for comparatively assessing multivariate association
Validity Studies Using the Comprehensive Ability Battery (CAB): 1. Academic Achievement Criteria
A new multiple-abilities battery—the Comprehensive Ability Battery (CAB)—is described, and results of five criterion-related validity studies using 11 tests of the battery are reported. The results are based on three samples of grade 11 males and two samples of grade 11 females from schools varying in terms of the students' social class backgrounds. Correlations between each of the 11 CAB tests and year-end criterion grades in seven subject areas…
Transformation Of Axes In Interbattery Factor Analysis
Tucker's interbattery factor analysis model is briefly reviewed. The various transformational alternatives possible with the model are delineated, and those resulting in identical orientations of the factors -- in the interbattery factor spaces for the two batteries -- are identified and developed further. Transformation in the interbattery context is developed using the Harris-Kaiser logic of oblique factor solutions by orthonormal transformatio…
An Examination of Inter-Domain Relationships Among Some Ability and Personality Traits
Linkages between the abilities and personality domains are explicated from the results of a recent study, in which cross-domain correlations between 20 ability variables and 14 personality traits were obtained from a sample of 138 late adolescent males. A model designed to reveal the structure of cross-battery correlations— Tucker's interbattery factor model—was employed, and three interbattery factors were isolated. These inter-domain factors ar…
Validity Studies Using the Comprehensive Ability Battery (Cab): II. Relationships With the Dat and Gatb
Three multiple-abilities batteries—the Comprehensive Ability Battery (CAB), Differential Aptitude Tests (DAT), and General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB)—are briefly discussed, and results of a study involving cross-correlations of the tests in these batteries are presented. The measures included are 11 of the 20 CAB tests, plus two simple composite measures, all eight of the DAT tests, plus two composites, and seven of the eight paper-and-pencil t…
Validity Studies Using the Comprehensive Ability Battery (Cab): III. Performance in Conjunction With Personality and Motivational Traits
Results of a study are presented in which 129 grade 10 male and female students were measured by batteries from three individual-difference domains: the Comprehensive Ability Battery (CAB), the High School Personality Questionnaire (HSPQ), and the School Motivation Analysis Test (SMAT). Four ability measures from the CAB found previously to be maximally predictive of academic achievement, and three factor scales from each of the personality tempe…
Two-sample T–2 procedure and the assumption of homogeneous covariance matrices
Two-sample T-2 procedure and the assumption of homogeneous covariance matrices
Confidence Intervals For Maximized Alpha Coefficients: An Evaluation Of Joe And Woodward's Procedures And An Alternative Method
The procedures yielding confidence intervals for maximized alpha coefficients of Joe and Woodward are reviewed. Confidence interval procedures of Hakstian, Whalen, and Masson are next reviewed. Results are then presented of a Monte Carlo investigation of the procedures. Of Joe and Woodward's procedures, that derived for the most general case is shown to yield confidence intervals spanning the parameter with probabilities adequately close to nomin…
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