Background In recent decades, many interventions targeting the occurrence (primary prevention) or the recurrence (secondary prevention) of child abuse and neglect have been …
A theory crisis and measurement crisis have been argued to be root causes of psychology's replication crisis. In both, the lack of conceptual clarification and the jingle-jangle jungle at …
When presenting evidence of validity, social scientists tend to rely on popular methods such as reliability, regression, and confirmatory factor analysis. The quality of the model output is …
Many people believe that certain mental states, such as love, continue after physical death. However, the prevalence of such “continuity beliefs” and their relationship with culture and …
Many researchers refer to psychedelic, religious, spiritual, and mystical experiences (PEs, REs, SEs, MEs) as if they are all distinct types of experiences. Given the many meanings of …
The purpose of this quantitative predictive study was to examine if mental imagery predicts the putting accuracy of novice golfers in the Southwest United States. The study focused on …
Traditional validation processes for psychological surveys tend to focus on analyzing item responses instead of the cognitive processes that participants use to generate these …
Abstract The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) is a widely used psychological measure for assessing stress levels. Previous factor-analytic studies have explored various models …