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Characterising and justifying sample size sufficiency in interview-based studies: systematic analysis of qualitative health research over a 15-year period Open
We recommend, firstly, that qualitative health researchers be more transparent about evaluations of their sample size sufficiency, situating these within broader and more encompassing assessments of data adequacy. Secondly, we invite resea…
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Developing rigor in qualitative research: problems and opportunities within sport and exercise psychology Open
Qualitative research has grown within sport and exercise psychology and is now widely conducted. The purpose of this review is to discuss three commonly used ways to demonstrate rigor when conducting or judging qualitative research in spor…
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Career Development and Counseling: Putting Theory and Research to Work Open
This volume is an essential resource for the library of anyone interested in the field of career development, assessment, and counseling and should also prove invaluable for graduate students interested in immersing themselves in some of t…
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A Review of Self-regulated Learning: Six Models and Four Directions for Research Open
Self-regulated learning (SRL) includes the cognitive, metacognitive, behavioral, motivational, and emotional/affective aspects of learning. It is, therefore, an extraordinary umbrella under which a considerable number of variables that inf…
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ROBIS: A new tool to assess risk of bias in systematic reviews was developed Open
ROBIS is the first rigorously developed tool designed specifically to assess the risk of bias in systematic reviews.
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Heart Rate Variability and Cardiac Vagal Tone in Psychophysiological Research – Recommendations for Experiment Planning, Data Analysis, and Data Reporting Open
Psychophysiological research integrating heart rate variability (HRV) has increased during the last two decades, particularly given the fact that HRV is able to index cardiac vagal tone. Cardiac vagal tone, which represents the contributio…
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Journal article reporting standards for qualitative primary, qualitative meta-analytic, and mixed methods research in psychology: The APA Publications and Communications Board task force report. Open
The American Psychological Association Publications and Communications Board Working Group on Journal Article Reporting Standards for Qualitative Research (JARS-Qual Working Group) was charged with examining the state of journal article re…
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Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Children and Youth: An Integration of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour, and Sleep Open
Leaders from the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology convened representatives of national organizations, content experts, methodologists, stakeholders, and end-users who followed rigorous and transparent guideline development procedur…
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Exploratory Factor Analysis: A Guide to Best Practice Open
Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is a multivariate statistical method that has become a fundamental tool in the development and validation of psychological theories and measurements. However, researchers must make several thoughtful and e…
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EXAMINING SOCIAL PRESENCE IN ONLINE COURSES IN RELATION TO STUDENTS' PERCEIVED LEARNING AND SATISFACTION Open
Research has demonstrated that social presence not only affects outcomes but also student, and possibly instructor, satisfaction with a course. Teacher immediacy behaviors and the presence of others are especially important issues for thos…
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Semistructured interviewing in primary care research: a balance of relationship and rigour Open
Semistructured in-depth interviews are commonly used in qualitative research and are the most frequent qualitative data source in health services research. This method typically consists of a dialogue between researcher and participant, gu…
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Issues of validity and reliability in qualitative research Open
Evaluating the quality of research is essential if findings are to be utilised in practice and incorporated into care delivery. In a previous article we explored ‘bias’ across research designs and outlined strategies to minimise bias.1 The…
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Latent profile analysis: A review and “how to” guide of its application within vocational behavior research Open
Latent profile analysis (LPA) is a categorical latent variable approach that focuses on identifying latent subpopulations within a population based on a certain set of variables. LPA thus assumes that people can be typed with varying degre…
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Mind the Hype: A Critical Evaluation and Prescriptive Agenda for Research on Mindfulness and Meditation Open
During the past two decades, mindfulness meditation has gone from being a fringe topic of scientific investigation to being an occasional replacement for psychotherapy, tool of corporate well-being, widely implemented educational practice,…
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The Person-Based Approach to Intervention Development: Application to Digital Health-Related Behavior Change Interventions Open
This paper describes an approach that we have evolved for developing successful digital interventions to help people manage their health or illness. We refer to this as the "person-based" approach to highlight the focus on understanding an…
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Theoretical explanations for maintenance of behaviour change: a systematic review of behaviour theories Open
There are distinct patterns of theoretical explanations for behaviour change and for behaviour change maintenance. The findings from this review can guide the development and evaluation of interventions promoting maintenance of health beha…
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Design and Implementation Content Validity Study: Development of an instrument for measuring Patient-Centered Communication Open
This article illustrates acceptable quantities indices for content validity a new instrument and outlines them during design and psychometrics of patient-centered communication measuring instrument.
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Validity, reliability, and generalizability in qualitative research Open
In general practice, qualitative research contributes as significantly as quantitative research, in particular regarding psycho-social aspects of patient-care, health services provision, policy setting, and health administrations. In contr…
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Recruiting the ABCD sample: Design considerations and procedures Open
The ABCD study is a new and ongoing project of very substantial size and scale involving 21 data acquisition sites. It aims to recruit 11,500 children and follow them for ten years with extensive assessments at multiple timepoints. To deli…
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BEYOND STUDENT PERCEPTIONS: ISSUES OF INTERACTION, PRESENCE, AND PERFORMANCE IN AN ONLINE COURSE Open
The research literature on Web-based learning supports the assumption that interaction is important for a successful course, yet questions exist regarding the nature and extent of the interaction and its effects on student performance. Muc…
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How Reliable are Measurement Scales? External Factors with Indirect Influence on Reliability Estimators Open
In social economic researches we often need to measure non-observable, latent variables. For this we use special research instruments, with uni and multi dimensional scales designed for measuring the constructs of interest. Validity and re…
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Reporting reliability, convergent and discriminant validity with structural equation modeling: A review and best-practice recommendations Open
Many constructs in management studies, such as perceptions, personalities, attitudes, and behavioral intentions, are not directly observable. Typically, empirical studies measure such constructs using established scales with multiple indic…
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College students’ use and acceptance of emergency online learning due to COVID-19 Open
Due to COVID-19, higher education institutions transitioned to online learning. This study explored college students' perceptions of their adoption, use, and acceptance of emergency online learning. The factors analyzed were attitude, affe…
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Validating vignette and conjoint survey experiments against real-world behavior Open
Significance Little evidence exists on whether preferences about hypothetical choices measured in a survey experiment are driven by the same structural determinants of the actual choices made in the real world. This study answers this ques…
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Journal article reporting standards for quantitative research in psychology: The APA Publications and Communications Board task force report. Open
Following a review of extant reporting standards for scientific publication, and reviewing 10 years of experience since publication of the first set of reporting standards by the American Psychological Association (APA; APA Publications an…
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Beyond confidence: Development of a measure assessing the 5C psychological antecedents of vaccination Open
The 5C scale provides a novel tool to monitor psychological antecedents of vaccination and facilitates diagnosis, intervention design and evaluation. Its short version is suitable for field settings and regular global monitoring of relevan…
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Conceptualising engagement with digital behaviour change interventions: a systematic review using principles from critical interpretive synthesis Open
"Engagement" with digital behaviour change interventions (DBCIs) is considered important for their effectiveness. Evaluating engagement is therefore a priority; however, a shared understanding of how to usefully conceptualise engagement is…
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Conversational agents in healthcare: a systematic review Open
Objective Our objective was to review the characteristics, current applications, and evaluation measures of conversational agents with unconstrained natural language input capabilities used for health-related purposes. Methods We searched …
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Strategies for e-waste management: a literature review Open
During the last few decades, with the high-speed upgrade of electronic products, electronic waste (e-waste) has become one of the fastest growing wastes of the waste stream. In this context, more efforts and concerns have already been plac…
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Principles and methods of validity and reliability testing of questionnaires used in social and health science researches Open
The importance of measuring the accuracy and consistency of research instruments (especially questionnaires) known as validity and reliability, respectively, have been documented in several studies, but their measure is not commonly carrie…