Revisiting the theoretical and methodological foundations of depression measurement

EI Fried, JK Flake, DJ Robinaugh - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2022 - nature.com
Depressive disorders are among the leading causes of global disease burden, but there has
been limited progress in understanding the causes of and treatments for these disorders. In …

Your coefficient alpha is probably wrong, but which coefficient omega is right? A tutorial on using R to obtain better reliability estimates

DB Flora - Advances in Methods and Practices in …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Measurement quality has recently been highlighted as an important concern for advancing a
cumulative psychological science. An implication is that researchers should move beyond …

Normalizing the use of single-item measures: Validation of the single-item compendium for organizational psychology

RA Matthews, L Pineault, YH Hong - Journal of Business and Psychology, 2022 - Springer
The application of single-item measures has the potential to help applied researchers
address conceptual, methodological, and empirical challenges. Based on a large-scale …

The theory crisis in psychology: How to move forward

MI Eronen, LF Bringmann - Perspectives on Psychological …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Meehl argued in 1978 that theories in psychology come and go, with little cumulative
progress. We believe that this assessment still holds, as also evidenced by increasingly …

Morality beyond the WEIRD: How the nomological network of morality varies across cultures.

M Atari, J Haidt, J Graham, S Koleva… - Journal of Personality …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Moral foundations theory has been a generative framework in moral psychology in the last 2
decades. Here, we revisit the theory and develop a new measurement tool, the Moral …

Use omega rather than Cronbach's alpha for estimating reliability. But…

AF Hayes, JJ Coutts - Communication Methods and Measures, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Cronbach's alpha (α) is a widely-used measure of reliability used to quantify the amount of
random measurement error that exists in a sum score or average generated by a multi-item …

Why hypothesis testers should spend less time testing hypotheses

AM Scheel, L Tiokhin, PM Isager… - Perspectives on …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
For almost half a century, Paul Meehl educated psychologists about how the mindless use of
null-hypothesis significance tests made research on theories in the social sciences basically …

An MTurk crisis? Shifts in data quality and the impact on study results

M Chmielewski, SC Kucker - Social Psychological and …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is arguably one of the most important research tools of
the past decade. The ability to rapidly collect large amounts of high-quality human subjects …

[HTML][HTML] Explaining hydrogen energy technology acceptance: A critical review

MD Scovell - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The use of hydrogen energy and the associated technologies is expected to increase in the
coming years. The success of hydrogen energy technology (HET) is, however, dependent …

Agile practices and performance: Examining the role of psychological empowerment

M Malik, S Sarwar, S Orr - International Journal of Project Management, 2021 - Elsevier
This study draws on the literature on psychological empowerment to conceptualize agile
practices as a source of intrinsic motivation that enables the agile teams to deliver innovative …