2020 December - 12 articles
Background: Relationship satisfaction has been identified as an important factor in terms of extradyadic sexual involvement. However, in men, fatherhood might be associated with infidelity by leading to changes in relationship satisfaction and the so...
Diagnostic scales are essential to the health and social sciences, and to the individuals that provide the data. Although statistical models for scale data have been researched for decades, it remains nearly universal that scale scores are sums of we...
(1) Background: Numerous research studies have investigated and identified the high prevalence of poor mental health status among the Chinese population, for example suffering from a high level of anxiety and depression. Moreover, the Chinese populat...
In testing situations, automated test assembly (ATA) is used to assemble single or multiple test forms that share the same psychometric characteristics, given a set of specific constraints, by means of specific solvers. However, in complex situations...
Various devices have been developed to enable humans to control remote objects using active hand movements. However, it is still unclear how the visual characteristics of a synchronously moving object influences hand movements. This study investigate...
Quality of life of Celiac Disease (CD) patients is affected by constraints in their physical, social and emotional behaviour. Our objective is to assess differences in two relevant dimensions of the Celiac Quality of Life (CQoL) scale, Limitations du...
Purpose: Recent investigations described a host of disadvantageous myopia comorbidities including decreased QOL, depression, and sleep problems. The present study evaluated mental status and habitual sleep in young subjects with myopia based on the r...
The four-parameter logistic model is an Item Response Theory model for dichotomous items that limit the probability of giving a positive response to an item into a restricted range, so that even people at the extremes of a latent trait do not have a...
Contextual reactivity refers to the degree in which personality states are affected by contextual cues. Research into contextual reactivity has mainly focused on repeated measurement designs. In this paper, we propose a cross-sectional approach to st...
The expectation–maximization (EM) algorithm is an important numerical method for maximum likelihood estimation in incomplete data problems. However, convergence of the EM algorithm can be slow, and for this reason, many EM acceleration techniqu...
This paper treats a so called pseudo exact or conditional approach of testing assumptions of a psychometric model known as the Rasch model. Draxler and Zessin derived the power function of such tests. They provide an alternative to asymptotic or larg...
(1) Background: High stress levels during pregnancy can affect the organogenesis and the foetus’ central nervous system maturation. The objective of this study was to determine whether a relationship between maternal stress during pregnancy and...
