Sentence examples for measuring the constructs from inspiring English sources

Results are discussed with respect to previous work in the field, challenges involved in measuring the constructs of interest, and implications to prevention.

A brief, 25-min battery of computer-based tests was administered to control participants and patients measuring the constructs of inhibitory control, attention, visual perception, and both executive and visual processing speed.

Using a 32-item questionnaire measuring the constructs of Reciprocity and Revenge, this study cross-culturally validates Nisbett and Cohen's COH theory and extends it to fishers, a special kind of forager.

We adapted our items for measuring the constructs from prior marketing research (see Table 2) using multi-item Likert-type scales for each.

The reliability of the instruments measuring the constructs; attitudes, self-efficacy, decision-to-adopt and job-satisfaction was tested for internal consistency and was satisfactory.

As recommended by Strecher and Rosenstock, we did not aggregate items measuring the constructs of the health belief model, despite some measures being moderately interrelated, and instead, evaluated the impact of each measure separately [ 24].

Point-measure correlation coefficients were negative for some items; therefore, they were not properly measuring the construct.

Each subscale was analysed to determine if the items were measuring the construct of each factor.

This increases the chance of the instrument actually measuring the construct the instrument is expected to measure.

Face validity relates to whether the items appear, on the surface, to be measuring the construct of interest.

If measures are not 'uncontaminated' (i.e. only measuring the construct of interest), empirical evidence for relationships between constructs in the model may be misleading.