Although many researchers in psychology, religious studies, and psychiatry recognize that
there is overlap in the experiences their subjects recount, disciplinary silos and challenges …

Abstract The Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS) was created in 1982 as a subjective
measure of quality of life. It has been used in approximately 300 studies, 200 theses and …

Researchers increasingly recognize that the mind and culture interact at many levels to
constitute our lived experience, yet we know relatively little about the extent to which culture …

As most practitioners (including teachers) do not know how AI functions and cannot make
full use of AI in education, there is an urgent need to investigate teachers' intentions to learn …

Objective Sexual pleasure is central to current understandings of sexual function, health,
and wellbeing. In this article, we suggest that we lack a sufficiently specific, yet …

Objective: To accurately identify substance use disorders, we must be confident of our ability
to define and measure the construct itself. To date, research has demonstrated that the ways …

ABSTRACT We studied the Amsterdam Sexual Pleasure Inventory's (1.0) psychometric
properties. The ASPI, a revised self-report battery designed to measure domains of state and …

Pretesting survey items for interpretability and relevance is a commonly recommended
practice in the social sciences. The goal is to construct items that are understood as …

Neurodiversity refers to the idea that all brains—no matter their differences—are valuable
and should be accepted. Attitudes toward the neurodiversity perspective can have real-life …

Validity in measurements in human and social sciences is commonly referred to as
“measuring what one intends to measure,” and with a good fit of item parameters–somewhat …