A number scales have been developed to measure conspiracist ideation, but little attention
has been paid to the factorial validity of these scales. We reassessed the psychometric …

Parents' beliefs about children's emotions comprise an important aspect of parental emotion
socialization and may relate to children's mental health and well-being. Thus, the goal of this …

We examined the psychometric properties of a Romanian translation of the 10-item Body
Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2). A total of 453 university students from Romania completed …

E-learning is becoming a widespread method of gaining knowledge in a global
environment. Accessibility and variety of online content encourage more and more people to …

The present study utilized a repeated cross-sectional survey design to examine belief in
conspiracy theories about the abduction of Natascha Kampusch. At two time points (October …

Pathological perfectionism is of increasing interest in clinical research, although the
dimensionality of this construct is actively debated. Most studies refer to two underlying …

While the Body Appreciation Scale (BAS) reduces to a single dimension among Western
samples, a two-factor solution has been found among non-Western populations. The …

The current study investigated the psychometric properties of the Persian translation of the
Mate Retention Inventory–Short Form (MRI-SF) in Iran. We also investigated sex differences …

Several self-report measures of conspiracist beliefs have been developed in Western
populations, but examination of their psychometric properties outside Europe and North …

Dimensionality reduction via PCA and factor analysis is an important tool of data analysis. A
critical step is selecting the number of components. However, existing methods (such as the …