Scale Development Research

By Roger L. Worthington, Tiffany A. Whittaker. 2006

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Computer Networks and Communications, Management Science and Operations Research

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Coming Out Growth: Conceptualizing and Measuring Stress-Related Growth Associated with Coming Out to Others as a Sexual Minority (2010, methodology): “Consistent with the recommendations of Worthington and Whittaker (2006), multiple methods (e.g., eigenvalues, Scree plot) as well as guidelines regarding the approximation of simple structure (high loadings on only one factor) were used to evaluate the factor structure of the COGS and items that had”
Defining family engagement among Latino Head Start parents: A mixed-methods measurement development study (2013, methodology): “At this stage, parent member-checking groups and an expert review panel were employed as checks on the integrity and validity of the evolving measure (Hill et al., 2005; Worthington & Whittaker, 2006).”
Why do small and medium enterprises use social media marketing and what is the impact: Empirical insights from India (2020, background): “Through the help of opinion of experts, complex wordings of the questionnaire can be simplified, leading and biased questions can be eliminated (Worthington & Whittaker, 2006).”
Handling Item-Level Missing Data (2013, background): “…(3 items being suggested as the minimum to conduct structural equation modeling using latent variable modeling, though such short scales are probably generally unreliable and suboptimal for use as indicators in structural equation modeling; Tabachnick & Fidell, 2007; Worthington & Whittaker, 2006).”
High School Sport Participation and Subsequent Psychological Well-Being and Physical Activity: The Mediating Influences of Body Image, Physical Competence, and Instrumentality (2009, methodology): “Consistent with current recommended best practices (Weston and Gore 2006; Worthington and Whittaker 2006 ), we used the robust Satorra-Bentler chi-square (χ 2 )”
Conceptualization and Measurement of Virtuous Leadership: Doing Well by Doing Good (2016, methodology): “The overall fit was good in that the χ2/df, (199.71/125) ratio was less than 3.00, the RMSEA was .05, and both the CFI (.98) and NFI (.94) exceeded .90 (cf. Meyers et al., 2006; Worthington and Whittaker, 2006).”
Construct Validation in Counseling Psychology Research (2006, background): “…special issues on quantitative methods for counseling psychologists have included a detailed discussion of scale development (Dawis, 1987; Worthington & Whittaker, 2006 [this issue]) but no general introduction to psychometrics (principles of measurement for psychological constructs)…”
The Multicultural Teaching Competency Scale: Development and Initial Validation (2011, methodology): “We examined item communalities, as suggested by Worthington and Whittaker (2006), and those below .20 were deleted from the solution.”
Travelers’ Health Risk Perceptions and Protective Behavior: A Psychological Approach (2017, background): “Cronbach’s alphas for all the factors were all satisfactory and above 0.7, except for one factor of sensation-seeking propensity (0.45), which might be related to the inherent weakness of factors having as few as two items (Worthington and Whittaker 2006).”