Daniel M Bolt
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4489554 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Daniel M Bolt |
| PRENOMES | Daniel M |
| SOBRENOME | Bolt |
| ASSINATURA | BOLT D M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7593-4439 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Approximating multidimensionality with asymmetric unidimensional IRT models
Unidimensional item response theory (IRT) models are widely used even in settings where assessment data exhibit subtle forms of multidimensionality. Recent empirical evidence suggests that when item difficulty is associated with dimensionality, asymmetric item characteristic curves (ICCs) emerge in the unidimensional approximation. Through theoretical derivation and extensive simulation, this paper develops a framework for understanding the emerg…
Mindfulness training enhances students’ executive functioning and social emotional skills
More research is needed to understand the effects of school-based mindfulness programs in the years before adolescence, which represent a critical juncture and transitional period of development. The present study investigated mindfulness with elementary school students using random assignment and objective measures. The sample included 292 5 th graders from 21 classrooms randomly assigned to an 8-week mindfulness training or wait-list control gr…
Parent-couple satisfaction, parent depression, and child mental health in families with autistic children
Findings highlight the bidirectional and complex ways that parent and child mental health and the quality of the parent-couple relationship are entwined across time in families of autistic children. Family-wide interventions that address the needs of multiple family members and family systems are best suited to improve the mental health of parents and autistic children
Relative Robustness of CDMs and (M)IRT in Measuring Growth in Latent Skills
Previous studies have demonstrated evidence of latent skill continuity even in tests intentionally designed for measurement of binary skills. In addition, the assumption of binary skills when continuity is present has been shown to potentially create a lack of invariance in item and latent ability parameters that may undermine applications. In this article, we examine measurement of growth as one such application, and consider multidimensional it…
Psychometric evaluation of a culturally adapted illness perception questionnaire for African Americans with type 2 diabetes
The results provide preliminary support for the validity of the culturally adapted IPQ-R in African Americans with diabetes, showing good construct, convergent and predictive validity, as well as reliability
A Mixture IRTree Model for Extreme Response Style
This paper presents a mixture item response tree (IRTree) model for extreme response style. Unlike traditional applications of single IRTree models, a mixture approach provides a way of representing the mixture of respondents following different underlying response processes (between individuals), as well as the uncertainty present at the individual level (within an individual). Simulation analyses reveal the potential of the mixture approach in …
Extreme Response Style and the Measurement of Intra-Individual Variability in Affect
Extreme response style (ERS) has the potential to bias the measurement of intra-individual variability in psychological constructs. This paper explores such bias through a multilevel extension of a latent trait model for modeling response styles applied to repeated measures rating scale data. Modeling responses to multi-item scales of positive and negative affect collected from smokers at clinic visits following a smoking cessation attempt reveal…
Longitudinal associations between self-regulation and the academic and behavioral adjustment of young children born preterm
Surveys
Quantitative Psychology Research
The 78th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS) builds on the Psychometric Society's mission to share quantitative methods relevant to psychology. The chapters of this volume present cutting-edge work in the field. Topics include studies of item response theory, computerized adaptive testing, cognitive diagnostic modeling, and psychological scaling. Additional psychometric topics relate to structural equation modeling, factor analysis,…
Multiscale Measurement of Extreme Response Style
This article extends a methodological approach considered by Bolt and Johnson for the measurement and control of extreme response style (ERS) to the analysis of rating data from multiple scales. Specifically, it is shown how the simultaneous analysis of item responses across scales allows for more accurate identification of ERS, and more effective control of ERS effects on the substantive trait estimates, than when analyzing just one scale. Moreo…
Infant physiological regulation and maternal risks as predictors of dyadic interaction trajectories in families with a preterm infant
This longitudinal study examined predictors of rates of growth in dyadic interaction quality in children born preterm who did not experience significant neurological findings during neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) hospitalization. Multiple methods were used to collect data from 120 preterm infants (48% girls, 52% boys) and their mothers. Infant heart rate variability (HRV), gestational age, neonatal health, feeding route, and maternal socioec…
The relative risk and timing of divorce in families of children with an autism spectrum disorder.
We compared the occurrence and timing of divorce in 391 parents of children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and a matched representative sample of parents of children without disabilities using a survival analysis. Parents of children with an ASD had a higher rate of divorce than the comparison group (23.5% vs. 13.8%). The rate of divorce remained high throughout the son's or daughter's childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood for paren…
Specific Features of After‐School Program Quality
This longitudinal study examined associations between three after‐school program quality features (positive staff–child relations, available activities, programming flexibility) and child developmental outcomes (reading and math grades, work habits, and social skills with peers) in Grade 2 and then Grade 3. Participants ( n = 120 in Grade 2, n = 91 in Grade 3) attended after‐school programs more than 4 days per week, on average. Controlling for c…
Presumed Influence on Peer Norms
In the context of adolescent smoking adoption, this study examined the presumed influence hypothesis, a theoretical model suggesting that smoking-related media content may have a significant indirect influence on adolescent smoking via its effect on perceived peer norms. That is, adolescents may assume that smoking-related messages in the mass media will influence the attitudes and behaviors of their peers and these perceptions in turn can influe…
Hostile attributions in incarcerated adult male offenders
Hostile attributions were examined in 150 incarcerated males to test the possibility that there are two pathways associated with hostile attributions: one related to psychopathy as assessed using the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised [PCL-R; Hare, 1991] and one related to depressogenic attributional style, as assessed using the Inferential Styles Questionnaire [ISQ; Rose et al., 1994]. Ten hypothetical vignettes were used to assess attributions of in…
Characteristics of the Safe At Home Instrument for Assessing Readiness to Change Intimate Partner Violence
Objective: This article describes the development, factor structure, concurrent validity, and predictive validity of the Safe At Home instrument, a 35-item self-report measure designed for social work assessment of individuals' readiness to change their intimate partner violence behaviors. Method: Multisite data (five sites, a total of 1,359 men at intake) addressed questions concerning instrument properties. Results: Initial exploratory factor a…
The Determinacy of Variables in Structural Equation Models
The indeterminacy of variables in a structural equation model - a path model with latent variables - is considered. It is shown that when the variables in the structural ]model are all manifest, the error-terms - disturbances - are uniquely determined given the parameters and the data; when the variables in the structural model are all latent, the error-terms have indeterminate components that are simple linear transformations of the indeterminat…
Specific Features of After‐School Program Quality
This longitudinal study examined associations between three after‐school program quality features (positive staff–child relations, available activities, programming flexibility) and child developmental outcomes (reading and math grades, work habits, and social skills with peers) in Grade 2 and then Grade 3. Participants ( n = 120 in Grade 2, n = 91 in Grade 3) attended after‐school programs more than 4 days per week, on average. Controlling for c…
Hostile attributions in incarcerated adult male offenders
Hostile attributions were examined in 150 incarcerated males to test the possibility that there are two pathways associated with hostile attributions: one related to psychopathy as assessed using the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised [PCL-R; Hare, 1991] and one related to depressogenic attributional style, as assessed using the Inferential Styles Questionnaire [ISQ; Rose et al., 1994]. Ten hypothetical vignettes were used to assess attributions of in…
Infant physiological regulation and maternal risks as predictors of dyadic interaction trajectories in families with a preterm infant
This longitudinal study examined predictors of rates of growth in dyadic interaction quality in children born preterm who did not experience significant neurological findings during neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) hospitalization. Multiple methods were used to collect data from 120 preterm infants (48% girls, 52% boys) and their mothers. Infant heart rate variability (HRV), gestational age, neonatal health, feeding route, and maternal socioec…
Characteristics of the Safe At Home Instrument for Assessing Readiness to Change Intimate Partner Violence
Objective: This article describes the development, factor structure, concurrent validity, and predictive validity of the Safe At Home instrument, a 35-item self-report measure designed for social work assessment of individuals' readiness to change their intimate partner violence behaviors. Method: Multisite data (five sites, a total of 1,359 men at intake) addressed questions concerning instrument properties. Results: Initial exploratory factor a…
Longitudinal associations between self-regulation and the academic and behavioral adjustment of young children born preterm
The Determinacy of Variables in Structural Equation Models
The indeterminacy of variables in a structural equation model - a path model with latent variables - is considered. It is shown that when the variables in the structural ]model are all manifest, the error-terms - disturbances - are uniquely determined given the parameters and the data; when the variables in the structural model are all latent, the error-terms have indeterminate components that are simple linear transformations of the indeterminat…
Characteristics of the Safe At Home Instrument for Assessing Readiness to Change Intimate Partner Violence
Objective: This article describes the development, factor structure, concurrent validity, and predictive validity of the Safe At Home instrument, a 35-item self-report measure designed for social work assessment of individuals' readiness to change their intimate partner violence behaviors. Method: Multisite data (five sites, a total of 1,359 men at intake) addressed questions concerning instrument properties. Results: Initial exploratory factor a…
Hostile attributions in incarcerated adult male offenders
Hostile attributions were examined in 150 incarcerated males to test the possibility that there are two pathways associated with hostile attributions: one related to psychopathy as assessed using the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised [PCL-R; Hare, 1991] and one related to depressogenic attributional style, as assessed using the Inferential Styles Questionnaire [ISQ; Rose et al., 1994]. Ten hypothetical vignettes were used to assess attributions of in…
Presumed Influence on Peer Norms
In the context of adolescent smoking adoption, this study examined the presumed influence hypothesis, a theoretical model suggesting that smoking-related media content may have a significant indirect influence on adolescent smoking via its effect on perceived peer norms. That is, adolescents may assume that smoking-related messages in the mass media will influence the attitudes and behaviors of their peers and these perceptions in turn can influe…
The relative risk and timing of divorce in families of children with an autism spectrum disorder.
We compared the occurrence and timing of divorce in 391 parents of children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and a matched representative sample of parents of children without disabilities using a survival analysis. Parents of children with an ASD had a higher rate of divorce than the comparison group (23.5% vs. 13.8%). The rate of divorce remained high throughout the son's or daughter's childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood for paren…
Specific Features of After‐School Program Quality
This longitudinal study examined associations between three after‐school program quality features (positive staff–child relations, available activities, programming flexibility) and child developmental outcomes (reading and math grades, work habits, and social skills with peers) in Grade 2 and then Grade 3. Participants ( n = 120 in Grade 2, n = 91 in Grade 3) attended after‐school programs more than 4 days per week, on average. Controlling for c…
Multiscale Measurement of Extreme Response Style
This article extends a methodological approach considered by Bolt and Johnson for the measurement and control of extreme response style (ERS) to the analysis of rating data from multiple scales. Specifically, it is shown how the simultaneous analysis of item responses across scales allows for more accurate identification of ERS, and more effective control of ERS effects on the substantive trait estimates, than when analyzing just one scale. Moreo…
Infant physiological regulation and maternal risks as predictors of dyadic interaction trajectories in families with a preterm infant
This longitudinal study examined predictors of rates of growth in dyadic interaction quality in children born preterm who did not experience significant neurological findings during neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) hospitalization. Multiple methods were used to collect data from 120 preterm infants (48% girls, 52% boys) and their mothers. Infant heart rate variability (HRV), gestational age, neonatal health, feeding route, and maternal socioec…
Quantitative Psychology Research
The 78th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS) builds on the Psychometric Society's mission to share quantitative methods relevant to psychology. The chapters of this volume present cutting-edge work in the field. Topics include studies of item response theory, computerized adaptive testing, cognitive diagnostic modeling, and psychological scaling. Additional psychometric topics relate to structural equation modeling, factor analysis,…
Surveys
Longitudinal associations between self-regulation and the academic and behavioral adjustment of young children born preterm
Extreme Response Style and the Measurement of Intra-Individual Variability in Affect
Extreme response style (ERS) has the potential to bias the measurement of intra-individual variability in psychological constructs. This paper explores such bias through a multilevel extension of a latent trait model for modeling response styles applied to repeated measures rating scale data. Modeling responses to multi-item scales of positive and negative affect collected from smokers at clinic visits following a smoking cessation attempt reveal…
A Mixture IRTree Model for Extreme Response Style
This paper presents a mixture item response tree (IRTree) model for extreme response style. Unlike traditional applications of single IRTree models, a mixture approach provides a way of representing the mixture of respondents following different underlying response processes (between individuals), as well as the uncertainty present at the individual level (within an individual). Simulation analyses reveal the potential of the mixture approach in …
Psychometric evaluation of a culturally adapted illness perception questionnaire for African Americans with type 2 diabetes
The results provide preliminary support for the validity of the culturally adapted IPQ-R in African Americans with diabetes, showing good construct, convergent and predictive validity, as well as reliability
Relative Robustness of CDMs and (M)IRT in Measuring Growth in Latent Skills
Previous studies have demonstrated evidence of latent skill continuity even in tests intentionally designed for measurement of binary skills. In addition, the assumption of binary skills when continuity is present has been shown to potentially create a lack of invariance in item and latent ability parameters that may undermine applications. In this article, we examine measurement of growth as one such application, and consider multidimensional it…
Parent-couple satisfaction, parent depression, and child mental health in families with autistic children
Findings highlight the bidirectional and complex ways that parent and child mental health and the quality of the parent-couple relationship are entwined across time in families of autistic children. Family-wide interventions that address the needs of multiple family members and family systems are best suited to improve the mental health of parents and autistic children
Mindfulness training enhances students’ executive functioning and social emotional skills
More research is needed to understand the effects of school-based mindfulness programs in the years before adolescence, which represent a critical juncture and transitional period of development. The present study investigated mindfulness with elementary school students using random assignment and objective measures. The sample included 292 5 th graders from 21 classrooms randomly assigned to an 8-week mindfulness training or wait-list control gr…
Approximating multidimensionality with asymmetric unidimensional IRT models
Unidimensional item response theory (IRT) models are widely used even in settings where assessment data exhibit subtle forms of multidimensionality. Recent empirical evidence suggests that when item difficulty is associated with dimensionality, asymmetric item characteristic curves (ICCs) emerge in the unidimensional approximation. Through theoretical derivation and extensive simulation, this paper develops a framework for understanding the emerg…
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