Assessment Instruments for Measuring Individual and Organizational Wellbeing
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Psychology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 8594
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Testing and assessment occurs throughout our lives, from schooling to employment. The science of psychometrics is the leading aspect of the field of psychology that has a direct impact on the daily lives of individuals. Special mention should be made for assessment instruments for measuring individual and organizational wellbeing. Tests in this field are used in professional practice as well as for research purposes. A major aspect in the assessments of individual and organizational wellbeing should be to share a common set of fundamental characteristics, that are: reliability, validity, standardization and freedom from bias. Together, these are essential to guaranteeing the quality of assessment.
The use of accurate instruments for measuring individual and organizational wellbeing should positively contribute to improving the health of individuals and their professional and personal life. From this standpoint, it is clear that good assessments play a strategic role within practice and research. For these purposes, it is essential that measurement instruments should be subjected to a process of validation to ensure their accuracy.
This Special Issue focuses on methodological works aimed at studying the psychometric properties of tests related to the areas of individual and organizational wellbeing, as well as measurement invariance between countries or between groups of people.
We welcome different types of manuscript submissions, including original research articles, cross-cultural studies and up-to-date reviews (systematic reviews and meta-analyses).
More specifically, we hope to receive contributions about the assessment of constructs and studies of item bias when adapting tests and questionnaires, including statistical procedures such as item response theory and structural equation modeling. Theoretical articles and reviews of the state of the art in psychometrics that focus the area of individual and organizational wellbeing, and/or considering new perspectives in the study of test translation and adaptation, are welcome.
Dr. Flavio Urbini
Dr. Antonino Callea
Dr. Antonio Chirumbolo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- psychometric properties of tests
- validity studies
- factor structure
- factorial group
- validation study
- statistical approaches
- measurement
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