Fred B Bryant
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 79272 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Fred B Bryant |
| PRENOMES | Fred B |
| SOBRENOME | Bryant |
| ASSINATURA | BRYANT F B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9751-6542 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 159 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Comparing Methods of Maximum Likelihood and Unweighted Least-Squares Estimation Across Structural Equation Modeling Software Programs
It is highly desirable that the results of analyses be equivalent, regardless of the software program researchers use to analyze their data. To assess cross-program comparability, we used the latest versions of four leading SEM programs—LISREL, EQS, Mplus, and R-lavaan—to conduct confirmatory factor analysis of responses to a popular measure of optimism (N = 803), using two methods of estimation (maximum likelihood and unweighted least-squares) a…
Evelyn Perloff (1921–2022)
Memorializes Evelyn Perloff (1921-2022). During the mid-20th century, Dr. Perloff embarked on a lifelong career as a psychologist, characterized by an abiding concern with scientific measurement and a passion that impelled her to launch an international database on psychosocial instruments years before databases became de rigueur in the behavioral sciences. She was a staunch advocate for measurement as a quintessential engine of science and profe…
Styles of Everyday Savoring Differentially Predict Well-being in Adolescents Over One Month
Gratitude as a Mediator of the Effects of Savoring on Positive Adjustment to Aging
We extended the previous experimental work with older adults by testing mediating variables through which savoring valuable “life lessons” improves attitudes toward aging and boosts well-being. A sample of 202 adults aged 65 or older were randomly assigned to either an experimental condition (in which they reflected on important lessons life had taught them) or a control condition (in which they reflected on their typical morning routine). Contem…
A Multi-level Longitudinal Model of Risk Factors for Generalized and Separation Anxiety Symptoms in a Community Sample of 6-year-olds
Associations of trait positive emotion regulation with everyday emotions
Positive emotion regulation is important for enhancing psychological well‐being. Previous studies have adopted a cross‐sectional design to examine the relationships between positive emotion regulation strategies and psychological functioning. Relatively little is known about the role of positive emotion regulation strategies in positive and negative emotions in everyday life. This study examines associations between perceived capability of savori…
Assessing student conceptions of international experience
The Workplace Intergenerational Climate Scale (Wics)
The Workplace Intergenerational Climate Scale (WICS) is designed to measure employees' attitudes and perceptions about workers of different ages in the workplace. In Study 1, an initial 18‐item measure was developed, reflecting five subscales: Intergenerational Contact, Workplace Intergenerational Retention, Positive Intergenerational Affect, Workplace Generational Inclusiveness, and Lack of Generational Stereotypes. Scores on the five WICS subsc…
Multi-domain Predictors of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms in Preschool Children
The role of race, socioeconomic status, and System of Care services in placement decision-making
Negotiating the Transition to College
The transition to college, which for the majority of youth coincides with the transition to emerging adulthood, is stressful and disruptive. Using latent growth curve modeling (LGM), this study examines the longitudinal course of psychosocial adjustment in a sample of 2,095 emerging adults, at three time-points across this transition: In the week prior to college entry and at the end of each semester of the first year. Overall, the immediate tran…
Principles and Practice of Scaled Difference Chi-Square Testing
We highlight critical conceptual and statistical issues and how to resolve them in conducting Satorra–Bentler (SB) scaled difference chi-square tests. Concerning the original (Satorra & Bentler, 2001 Satorra, A. and Bentler, P. M. 2001. A scaled difference chi-square test statistic for moment structure analysis. Psychometrika, 66: 507–514. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) and new (Satorra & Bentler, 2010 Satorra, A. and Bentler,…
Social Psychology of Politics
The Relationship between Temperamental Negative Affect, Effortful Control, and Sensory Regulation
Temperamental negative affectivity (NA) and effortful control (EC) have long been of interest to psychologists, but sensory regulation (SR) has received less attention. Using confirmatory factor analysis, the present study reexamined the Rothbart model of EC and NA using the Children's Behavior Questionnaire (CBQ; M.K. Rothbart, S.A. Ahadi, K.L. Hershy, & P. Fisher, 2001), along with alternative models of EC, NA, and SR using the CBQ and Short Se…
Comparison of health-related quality of life measures for chronic renal failure
Development and Validation of a Short-Form, Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine
BACKGROUND: Although prior studies used the 66-item Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM instrument) for literacy assessment, researchers may require a shorter, validated instrument when designing interventions for clinical contexts. OBJECTIVE: To develop and validate a very brief literacy assessment tool, the REALM-Short Form (REALM-SF). PATIENTS: The model development, validation, and field testing validation samples included 133…
Does substance use moderate the effects of parents and peers on risky sexual behaviour
We investigated the moderating effects of drug/alcohol use in the past 3 months on the relationships of peer influence, parental permissiveness, and teen disposition (i.e., achievement motivation, attitude toward school, and value placed on health) with adolescent risky sexual behaviour. Participants were 207 adolescents receiving psychiatric care. Substance use did not moderate the relationship between adolescent disposition and risky sex. By co…
Using the Past to Enhance the Present
Distinguishing Hope and Optimism
Structural equation modeling was used to test hypotheses about (a) the dimensionality of measures of dispositional hope (the Adult Hope Scale, AHS) and dispositional optimism (the Life Orientation Test, LOT), (b) the extent and source of conceptual overlap and divergence between hope and optimism, and (c) patterns of discriminant validity for each trait. Separate two-factor models best fit the hope (Agency and Pathways, r = .68) and optimism (Opt…
Teen Mothers Parenting their Own Teen Offspring
This study investigated whether parenting support moderated relations between age of mother at childbirth and parental responsiveness and monitoring. The sample included 212 African American families living in urban public housing; Offspring were entering adolescence when data were collected. Parenting support was measured by assessing the perceived assistance mothers received with parenting tasks. Child, maternal, and observer reports of materna…
Savoring Beliefs Inventory (SBI)
Background : Research has shown that beliefs about one's capacity to savour positive outcomes, a form of perceived control over positive emotions, are largely independent of beliefs about coping, a form of perceived control over negative emotions. Aim : To describe a new measure of savouring beliefs, the Savoring Beliefs Inventory (SBI). Method : Six studies validating the SBI that is designed to assess individuals' perceptions of their ability t…
Theory and Research on Small Groups
The Social Psychology of Politics
Understanding Aids-Risk Behavior Among Adolescents in Psychiatric Care
Refining the Architecture of Aggression
Refining the Architecture of Aggression
The structure of psychological well-being
This study used confirmatory factor analysis to explore dimensions of self-evaluations with data collected from two nationwide representative-sample, crosssectional surveys of U.S. adults—one conducted in 1957, the other in 1976. Eighteen indexes of well-being were constructed from items common to both surveys, which assessed feelings of well-being, self-perceptions, symptoms of distress, and various aspects of adjustment in marriage, parenthood,…
Predicting kindergarten academic skills
Stress and coping among Russian and American early adolescents
Self-reported stress, coping, and depression were compared between 270 Russian and 270 American early adolescents, 10 to 14 years of age. Russian and American adolescents reported equal levels of major life stress, but Russian adolescents reported greater levels of everyday life stress. Russian adolescents reported that they were less likely to use externalizing coping and more likely to use social support and problem-solving coping compared with…
Dimensions of Subjective Mental Health in American Men and Women
Confirmatory factor analyses were used to map dimensions of subjective mental health underlying 25 indexes of well-being and distress assessed in a 1976 national representative survey of adults. Partially confirming hypotheses, six dominant factors (Unhappiness, Lack of Gratification, Strain, Feelings of Vulnerability, Lack of Self-Confidence, and Uncertainty) emergedfor both men and women. Comparative analyses revealed that the six-factor model …
The Workplace Intergenerational Climate Scale (Wics)
The Workplace Intergenerational Climate Scale (WICS) is designed to measure employees' attitudes and perceptions about workers of different ages in the workplace. In Study 1, an initial 18‐item measure was developed, reflecting five subscales: Intergenerational Contact, Workplace Intergenerational Retention, Positive Intergenerational Affect, Workplace Generational Inclusiveness, and Lack of Generational Stereotypes. Scores on the five WICS subsc…
Toward a Measurement Model of the Affect Intensity Measure
Educational Status and the Structure of Subjective Well-Being in Men and Women
This study used confirmatory factor analysis with national survey data to explore how educational status affects the criteria men and women use to evaluate their subjective well-being. A recently developed six-factor model of subjective mental health (Bryant and Veroff, 1984) was used to evaluate separately the educational differences in the structure of well-being for men and women. Although the structure of women's self-evaluations did not diff…
School Desegregation and Black Achievement
Meta-analytic techniques were used to explore overall conclusions and variables moderating treatment effects in the research literature on school desegregation and black achievement. Studies were classified on the basis of the threats to their validity as either accepted or rejected for the analysis. For the initial analysis quasi-experimental studies were accepted, yielding an average effect size of .45. The better-designed studies had an averag…
The Factor Structure of the Affect Intensity Measure
Larsen (1984) developed the Affect Intensity Measure (AIM) as a putative measure of a unidimensional construct referred to as affect intensity, or the characteristic strength with which people experience emotions. Using a sample of 673 college undergraduates (409 females, 264 males), the one-factor model was found to be untenable as an explanation for subjects′ responses to the AIM. Based on exploratory principal components analysis, confirmatory…
Type A behaviour and time urgency
Relations between time perception and Type A behaviour were investigated. Extreme Type A ( n = 26) and B ( n = 28) male college undergraduates rated the appropriateness of 158 adjectives as descriptors of time. Adjectives were independently rated using seven‐point Likert ‘speed’ and ‘energy’ scales. Analyses showed that Type As rate adjectives low in speed and energy as less descriptive of time than Type Bs and vice versa
Marital Status and the Meaning of Subjective Well-Being
The impact of marital status on how people organize and interpret subjective experience was investigated by comparing national survey responses of first-married, divorced, and remarried adults. A three-stage confirmatory factor analysis procedure was used to examine how individuals in different marital status groups structure judgments about personal well-being, to compare these organizational structures across groups, and to clarify the nature o…
Prediction as a means of inducing tolerance
Assessing student conceptions of international experience
The role of race, socioeconomic status, and System of Care services in placement decision-making
Identifying and measuring diversity's payoffs
Because affirmative action is a means for achieving diversity and is, the authors argue, not an end in and of itself, diversity as an end and a concept, along with diversity's payoffs, are highlighted here. Another reason for doing an end-run around affirmative action is that it is a code expression, conjuring up controversial and contentious affect, including reverse discrimination, quotas, and set-asides, which are anathema in the twilight of t…
The Structure of Rape Attitudes for Men and Women
Improving the Quality of Research Synthesis in Program Evaluation
Because research synthesis enables one to determine either the overall effectiveness of different types of treatments, it is becoming increasingly popular as a tool in program evaluation. Numerous methodological problems arise, however, when research synthesis is applied to studies conducted in field settings. The present paper categorlzes and discusses these problems as being threats to either the (1) internal validity (whether one can draw conc…
Effects of feedback on self-expressive decision making1
Secondary analysis
Secondary analysis
Prediction as a means of inducing tolerance
The structure of psychological well-being
This study used confirmatory factor analysis to explore dimensions of self-evaluations with data collected from two nationwide representative-sample, crosssectional surveys of U.S. adults—one conducted in 1957, the other in 1976. Eighteen indexes of well-being were constructed from items common to both surveys, which assessed feelings of well-being, self-perceptions, symptoms of distress, and various aspects of adjustment in marriage, parenthood,…
Dimensions of Subjective Mental Health in American Men and Women
Confirmatory factor analyses were used to map dimensions of subjective mental health underlying 25 indexes of well-being and distress assessed in a 1976 national representative survey of adults. Partially confirming hypotheses, six dominant factors (Unhappiness, Lack of Gratification, Strain, Feelings of Vulnerability, Lack of Self-Confidence, and Uncertainty) emergedfor both men and women. Comparative analyses revealed that the six-factor model …
School Desegregation and Black Achievement
Meta-analytic techniques were used to explore overall conclusions and variables moderating treatment effects in the research literature on school desegregation and black achievement. Studies were classified on the basis of the threats to their validity as either accepted or rejected for the analysis. For the initial analysis quasi-experimental studies were accepted, yielding an average effect size of .45. The better-designed studies had an averag…
Improving the Quality of Research Synthesis in Program Evaluation
Because research synthesis enables one to determine either the overall effectiveness of different types of treatments, it is becoming increasingly popular as a tool in program evaluation. Numerous methodological problems arise, however, when research synthesis is applied to studies conducted in field settings. The present paper categorlzes and discusses these problems as being threats to either the (1) internal validity (whether one can draw conc…
Educational Status and the Structure of Subjective Well-Being in Men and Women
This study used confirmatory factor analysis with national survey data to explore how educational status affects the criteria men and women use to evaluate their subjective well-being. A recently developed six-factor model of subjective mental health (Bryant and Veroff, 1984) was used to evaluate separately the educational differences in the structure of well-being for men and women. Although the structure of women's self-evaluations did not diff…
Intimacy Motivation and Subjective Mental Health in a Nationwide Sample
Over 1,200 adults in a representative nationwide sample were administered the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) and an unstructured interview which produced 25 measures of subjective mental health and ultimately six factor scores unhappiness, lack of gratification, strain, feelings of vulnerability, lack of self‐confidence, and uncertainty The TATs were scored for intimacy motivation (McAdams, 1980)—a recurrent preference or readiness for experien…
Type A behaviour and time urgency
Relations between time perception and Type A behaviour were investigated. Extreme Type A ( n = 26) and B ( n = 28) male college undergraduates rated the appropriateness of 158 adjectives as descriptors of time. Adjectives were independently rated using seven‐point Likert ‘speed’ and ‘energy’ scales. Analyses showed that Type As rate adjectives low in speed and energy as less descriptive of time than Type Bs and vice versa
Marital Status and the Meaning of Subjective Well-Being
The impact of marital status on how people organize and interpret subjective experience was investigated by comparing national survey responses of first-married, divorced, and remarried adults. A three-stage confirmatory factor analysis procedure was used to examine how individuals in different marital status groups structure judgments about personal well-being, to compare these organizational structures across groups, and to clarify the nature o…
A Four‐Factor Model of Perceived Control
This study provides evidence that people evaluate their control over events and over feelings separately with respect to both positive and negative experiences Confirmatory factor analyses revealed that subjects made separate self‐evaluations of control regarding their ability to (a) avoid negative outcomes, (b) cope with negative outcomes, (c) obtain positive outcomes, and (d) savor positive outcomes In addition, beliefs about avoiding and obtai…
Type A behavior and reminiscence in college undergraduates
Methodological Issues in Applied Social Psychology
The relationship of social support to perceived control and subjective mental health in adolescents
This study investigated the link between social support and positive constructs, specifically, psychological well-being and the perceived ability to obtain and savor positive life events. Eighty-two high school students were surveyed. Social support was significantly related to positive dimensions of subjective mental health (happiness, gratification, and self-confidence), but not to its negative components (vulnerability, strain, and uncertainty…
The Factor Structure of the Affect Intensity Measure
Larsen (1984) developed the Affect Intensity Measure (AIM) as a putative measure of a unidimensional construct referred to as affect intensity, or the characteristic strength with which people experience emotions. Using a sample of 673 college undergraduates (409 females, 264 males), the one-factor model was found to be untenable as an explanation for subjects′ responses to the AIM. Based on exploratory principal components analysis, confirmatory…
Toward a Measurement Model of the Affect Intensity Measure
Predicting kindergarten academic skills
The Structure of Rape Attitudes for Men and Women
Stress and coping among Russian and American early adolescents
Self-reported stress, coping, and depression were compared between 270 Russian and 270 American early adolescents, 10 to 14 years of age. Russian and American adolescents reported equal levels of major life stress, but Russian adolescents reported greater levels of everyday life stress. Russian adolescents reported that they were less likely to use externalizing coping and more likely to use social support and problem-solving coping compared with…
Identifying and measuring diversity's payoffs
Identifying and measuring diversity's payoffs
Because affirmative action is a means for achieving diversity and is, the authors argue, not an end in and of itself, diversity as an end and a concept, along with diversity's payoffs, are highlighted here. Another reason for doing an end-run around affirmative action is that it is a code expression, conjuring up controversial and contentious affect, including reverse discrimination, quotas, and set-asides, which are anathema in the twilight of t…
Understanding Aids-Risk Behavior Among Adolescents in Psychiatric Care
Refining the Architecture of Aggression
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