Method effects and the meaning of measurement

A Maul - Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Although the idea of a method effect in psychological measurement seems intuitively
straightforward–that is, it is said to occur when any characteristic of a measurement …

An Islamic perspective of workplace rectitude

MM Sulphey - Asian Journal of Business Ethics, 2023 - Springer
The purpose of the study is to conceptualise Islamic workplace rectitude. Based on a
comprehensive literature review, the study proposes that Islamic workplace rectitude is …

Predicting survey responses: How and why semantics shape survey statistics on organizational behaviour

JK Arnulf, KR Larsen, ØL Martinsen, CH Bong - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Some disciplines in the social sciences rely heavily on collecting survey responses to detect
empirical relationships among variables. We explored whether these relationships were a …

Quantitative research without measurement. Reinterpreting the better-than-average-effect

DJ Franz - New Ideas in Psychology, 2023 - Elsevier
Established measurement practices have been criticized from various theoretical
perspectives. The purpose of this article is to argue that quantitative research could be more …

Measurement, ontology, and epistemology: Psychology needs pragmatism-realism

H Guyon, JL Kop, J Juhel… - Theory & Psychology, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Measurement in psychology is at the heart of a major debate in the academic literature. We
aim to contribute to a critical discussion of this issue. We propose to reposition the object of …

Constructing psychological objects: The rhetoric of constructs.

KL Slaney, DA Garcia - Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical …, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
The concept 'construct'has been used to denote a large class of phenomena, including more
classically defined traits (such as introversion and extroversion), clinical and diagnostic …

[PDF][PDF] Peligrosidad criminal: análisis crítico de un concepto polisémico

A Andrés-Pueyo - y M. Maroto (Coord.), Neurociencias …, 2013 - transjusblog.wordpress.com
PELIGROSIDAD CRIMINAL: ANÁLISIS CRÍTICO DE UN CONCEPTO POLISÉMICO* Page 1
PELIGROSIDAD CRIMINAL: ANÁLISIS CRÍTICO DE UN CONCEPTO POLISÉMICO* ANTONIO …

On the ontology of psychological attributes

A Maul - Theory & Psychology, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Coherent interpretations of many claims about measurement in the psychological sciences
depend on philosophically realist commitments regarding the psychological attributes …

Describing spirituality at the end of life

PS Stephenson, DM Berry - Western journal of nursing …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Spirituality is salient to persons nearing the end of life (EOL). Unfortunately, researchers
have not been able to agree on a universal definition of spirituality reducing the …

Culture blind leadership research: how semantically determined survey data may fail to detect cultural differences

JK Arnulf, KR Larsen - Frontiers in psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Likert scale surveys are frequently used in cross-cultural studies on leadership. Recent
publications using digital text algorithms raise doubt about the source of variation in statistics …