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Student engagement positively influences academic achievement, yet instruments suited to the Indonesian cultural context remain limited. This study aimed to develop a valid, reliable, and user-friendly student engagement scale for high school students. Using a quantitative descriptive design, the study involved 295 male and female students aged 15–18 years recruited through convenience sampling. The scale comprised three dimensions: behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement. The results showed that the scale demonstrated a good model fit based on the goodness-of-fit indices (χ2/df = 1.60; CFI = 0.966; TLI = 0.962; SRMR = 0.074; RMSEA = 0.045) and good reliability, with Cronbach’s alpha values of 0.844 for emotional engagement, 0.753 for behavioral engagement, and 0.782 for cognitive engagement. The developed scale can be used by teachers, counselors, and educational researchers to identify students’ levels of engagement and inform the development of programs to improve student engagement.

Background: Midwifery laboratories are essential for developing clinical competencies, yet service quality and resource adequacy are frequently assessed separately. Objectives: This study aimed to develop and internally evaluate an integrated instrument for assessing midwifery laboratory quality. Methods: Five experts validated the instrument, and 446 midwifery students with laboratory experience completed a 44 item questionnaire. Psychometric evaluation included content validity, exploratory factor analysis (EFA), preliminary confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), Rasch analysis, and internal consistency testing. Results: The average scale content validity index was 0.982. EFA identified six factors explaining 56.96% of total variance, with the first factor contributing 44.02%. Preliminary CFA demonstrated X²/df = 2.240, RMSEA = 0.053, SRMR = 0.041, GFI = 0.991, CFI = 0.898, and TLI = 0.886. Rasch person reliability was 0.969, whereas item reliability was 0.641. Cronbach alpha reached 0.970, with corrected item total correlations ranging from 0.561 to 0.739. Conclusions: The instrument demonstrated promising internal psychometric properties for evaluating midwifery laboratory quality. However, independent external validation and comprehensive ordinal and Rasch diagnostics remain necessary before broader implementation.

زمینه: آزمایشگاه‌های مامایی برای توسعه شایستگی‌های بالینی ضروری هستند، اما کیفیت خدمات و کفایت منابع اغلب به طور جداگانه ارزیابی می‌شوند. اهداف: این مطالعه با هدف تدوین و ارزیابی درونی یک ابزار یکپارچه برای ارزیابی کیفیت آزمایشگاه‌های مامایی انجام شد. روش‌ها: ابزار توسط پنج نفر از خبرگان اعتبارسنجی شد و ۴۴۶ دانشجوی مامایی با تجربه آزمایشگاهی به پرسشنامه‌ای ۴۴ ماده‌ای پاسخ دادند. ارزیابی ویژگی‌های روان‌سنجی شامل روایی محتوا، تحلیل عاملی اکتشافی (EFA)، تحلیل عاملی تأییدی مقدماتی (CFA)، تحلیل Rasch و آزمون پایایی درونی بود. نتایج: شاخص روایی محتوا برای مقیاس به طور میانگین ۰.۹۸۲ بود. تحلیل عاملی اکتشافی شش عامل را شناسایی کرد که ۵۶.۹۶٪ از واریانس کل را تبیین کردند و عامل اول ۴۴.۰۲٪ سهم داشت. تحلیل عاملی تأییدی مقدماتی شاخص‌های X²/df = ۲.۲۴۰، RMSEA = ۰.۰۵۳، SRMR = ۰.۰۴۱، GFI = ۰.۹۹۱، CFI = ۰.۸۹۸ و TLI = ۰.۸۸۶ را نشان داد. پایایی فردی Rasch برابر با ۰.۹۶۹ و پایایی ماده Rasch برابر با ۰.۶۴۱ بود. آلفای کرونباخ به ۰.۹۷۰ رسید و همبستگی کل-ماده تصحیح‌شده بین ۰.۵۶۱ تا ۰.۷۳۹ بود. نتیجه‌گیری: ابزار مذکور ویژگی‌های روان‌سنجی درونی امیدوارکننده‌ای برای ارزیابی کیفیت آزمایشگاه‌های مامایی نشان داد. با این حال، اعتبارسنجی خارجی مستقل و تشخیص‌های جامع ترتیبی و Rasch پیش از اجرای گسترده‌تر ضروری است.

ABSTRACT Introduction Anxiety is central to the psychotherapy process, yet psychotherapists routinely infer a client's anxiety intensity from observable behaviour rather than from formal measurement, with no widely accepted framework to organise which observable markers indicate which levels of anxiety. This exploratory study examined how therapists make such classifications. Method Ninety‐one mental health professionals were randomly assigned to classify 41 text‐described behavioural and physiological markers using either a 5‐level or a simplified 3‐level category system, both derived from an integrated model of state anxiety in psychotherapy. Results Response distributions departed significantly from uniformity for nearly all markers in both formats, and the rank ordering of markers by intensity was highly consistent across formats, suggesting that therapists may share broad intuitions about relative marker intensity. Which markers elicited agreement, however, was far less reproducible, depending substantially on the response format. Convergence also depended on where the agreement criterion was set, declining from 90.2% to 51.2% of markers in the 3‐level format and from 63.4% to 22.0% in the 5‐level format as the criterion rose from > 0.50 to > 0.70. The 3‐level format yielded more classifiable markers at every criterion, although this advantage was not consistent across indices, whereas the 5‐level format elicited fewer ‘Insufficient to Determine’ responses. Markers placed at the highest intensity levels were classified most consistently. Discussion These findings offer preliminary groundwork for research on marker operationalisation, contextualised rating tasks and the development of training materials for psychotherapy process research.

Teacher assessment literacy has received increasing attention, yet evidence remains fragmented across studies. This systematic review and meta-analysis synthesized 18 studies comprising 21 independent samples using the ALI, CALI, and TALQ instruments. The pooled mean score was 16.48 (95% CI [14.86, 18.10]) on a 35-point scale, indicating low assessment literacy, with substantial between-study heterogeneity (I² = 99.21%). Publication year, geographical region, instrument type, teacher status, teaching level, and subject specialization were not significant moderators. This review provides the first quantitative benchmark of teacher assessment literacy across the ALI, CALI, and TALQ instruments and highlights the need to strengthen assessment literacy through pre-service education, continuous professional development, and context-responsive educational policies.

The validity of assessment instruments is a crucial aspect in ensuring the quality of learning evaluations in Islamic Religious Education (PAI). However, there are still evaluation instruments that are developed without considering the alignment of indicators, constructs, and measurement objectives, which may result in inaccurate data. This study aims to examine the concepts, types, testing procedures, and methods for determining the validity of assessment instruments through a literature review. The method used is library research with a descriptive qualitative approach. Data were obtained from various books, scientific journals, and relevant documents, and then analyzed descriptively. The results of the study indicate that the validity of an instrument encompasses logical validity and empirical validity, which complement each other in ensuring the accuracy of measurements. Validity testing was conducted systematically through construct definition, development of a test blueprint, expert validation, instrument pilot testing, and statistical analysis. A valid instrument is capable of producing data that is accurate, credible, and supports sound educational decision-making.

This study examined teachers’ readiness and perceived effectiveness in implementing Makabansa and Araling Panlipunan under the revised K to 10 (MATATAG) Framework across 33 public schools in the Schools Division of Parañaque City during School Year 2025–2026. Specifically, it sought to determine whether teacher readiness significantly predicted perceived effectiveness and to identify which readiness domains most strongly influenced outcomes. Employing a quantitative-correlational design, the study utilized stratified random sampling to ensure proportional representation across grade levels and supervisory contexts. The study involved 271 public school respondents, composed of 227 teachers handling learners in Key Stages 1–3 and 44 immediate coordinators, namely head teachers and master teachers. Data were collected through validated researcher-made survey instruments measuring readiness and perceived effectiveness and were analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation, and regression techniques. Findings revealed that both teachers and coordinators demonstrated very high levels of readiness and effectiveness. Correlation analysis confirmed a significant positive relationship between readiness and effectiveness, while regression analysis demonstrated that readiness significantly predicted effectiveness. Teacher readiness explained 22.4% of the variance in perceived effectiveness (R² = .224, β = .473, p < .001), while coordinator readiness explained 53.9% (R² = .539, β = .734, p < .001). As a practical output, the study developed a Teacher Readiness Toolkit for Makabansa and Araling Panlipunan.

This research explores the critical intersection of consistency, standards and complexity in academic assessment integrity using focus groups consisting of academic staff and undergraduate nursing students. While academic quality standards are mandated by accreditation bodies to ensure accountability and skill acquisition, the marking process remains a complex, intuitive task heavily reliant on a marker's experience and practicality. Significant challenges arise when marking becomes overly criteria-driven at the expense of core assessment goals, leading to variability in judging relevant student ideas or specific technical skills such as referencing. Such variability undermines the reliability and objectivity essential for assessment fairness. To mitigate these risks, pre-marking meetings are identified as essential for establishing shared requirements and expectations among staff. Strategic timing of these supports, ideally pre-semester, provides the necessary framework for quality assurance and enables markers to make meaningful and accurate judgements regarding a student’s true knowledge and performance. Keywords: student/ marking/ assessment/ quality/consistency/ tertiary education

Background Assessing dance performance in physical education teacher education (PETE) requires judges to integrate technical and aesthetic qualities. Analytic rubrics make relevant dimensions explicit, whereas Adaptive Comparative Judgment (ACJ) elicits holistic pairwise decisions and produces a relative performance scale. This study compared the outcomes and student perceptions associated with the two approaches. Methods Seventeen pre-service teachers assessed 46 video-recorded student dance performances using an analytic rubric and ACJ. An expert reference was derived from five PETE lecturers who had assessed the performances live using the rubric and subsequently evaluated the video recordings through ACJ. Analyses examined rubric reliability and ACJ precision, convergence between method-derived rankings, student–expert rank alignment, cross-condition rubric score differences, and students’ perceptions of ease of use, usefulness, transparency, and fairness. Results Rubric- and ACJ-derived rankings were strongly associated within the student panel (Spearman's ρ = .863) and the expert reference panel ( ρ = .879). Aggregated student rankings also aligned closely with the expert-reference rankings under rubric scoring ( ρ = .890) and ACJ ( ρ = .888), with no clear difference in alignment between the methods. Aggregated student rubric scores showed high reliability, ICC(2,17) = .955, while ACJ scale separation reliability was .780 for students and .836 for experts. Student video-based rubric scores were, on average, 0.77 points higher than the archived live expert consensus scores. Students perceived ACJ as easier to use but the analytic rubric as more transparent. Perceived usefulness did not differ clearly, while fairness ratings descriptively favored the rubric. Conclusion Analytic rubric scoring and ACJ produced strongly convergent aggregate rankings, and the aggregated student panel differentiated relative performance quality in ways closely aligned with the expert reference under both approaches. However, the methods differed in score interpretation and perceived transparency. The results support considering ACJ as a complementary approach for digitally supported assessment and moderation rather than as a direct replacement for criterion-based summative assessment.

This mixed-methods study had two aims: to determine the purpose of school administrators’ use of social media and to develop and validate a scale measuring those purposes. In the qualitative phase, 15 school principals were interviewed individually, and the social media accounts of five principals were analyzed to identify purposes of use. In the second phase, an instrument was developed and validated across two independent samples of school administrators attending separate in-service training programs organized by the Turkish Ministry of National Education (MONE). Exploratory factor analysis (EFA; n = 156), using principal axis factoring with direct oblimin rotation, revealed a three-factor structure: stakeholder communication, personal use, and professional development, accounting for 65.52% of the total variance. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA; n = 148) supported the factor structure with satisfactory model fit (χ²/df = 1.60, CFI = .955, RMSEA = .064). Convergent and discriminant validity were established through average variance extracted, composite reliability, McDonald’s omega, and the Fornell–Larcker criterion.

Background Rooted in positive psychology, human flourishing scholarship focuses on the presence of health and wellbeing beyond the absence of illness. Contemporary flourishing research has increasingly expanded its focus beyond individuals to larger systems, including families. Family flourishing is an emerging concept with limited clarity in its conceptualizations and measurements. This scoping review synthesized existing literature on the unit-level conceptualizations and operationalizations of family flourishing and wellbeing and examined the extent to which existing measures align with contemporary understandings of human flourishing. Methods Arksey and O'Malley's methodology and the PRISMA-ScR reporting guidelines were followed. Searches were conducted in PubMed, CINAHL, ERIC, PsycINFO, Social Work Abstracts, Academic Search Premier, and Web of Science. Eligible studies presented explicit unit-level conceptualizations or quantitative measures of family flourishing or wellbeing as a multidimensional construct. Only studies written in English and published since 2000 were included. Title and abstract screening, full-text screening, and data extraction were conducted by two independent researchers, while monitoring inter-coder reliability. Discrepancies were resolved through consensus in consultation with the PI. Data extraction utilized a standardized form for consistency, which was iteratively revised through discussion. Results The final sample included 13 studies, which represented diverse regions, including China, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, New Zealand, the Philippines, and the United States. Studies were published between 2005 and 2025, with most studies published since 2020. Seven quantitative measures of family wellbeing were identified while no family flourishing measures were found. Conceptualizations represented diverse roots including Aristotelian eudaimonia, Indigenous cultural beliefs, and local spiritual teachings. While boundaries were often unclear, six broad categories of conceptualizations were identified, including relational/functional. eudaimonic/existential, hedonic/emotional, social/community, socioeconomic/environmental, and spiritual/religious domains. Relational/functional domains were most frequently covered while spiritual/religious domains were least frequently covered by existing measures. Most measures were developed more than a decade ago, and psychometric evidence beyond internal consistency was limited. Conclusion Family flourishing is an underdeveloped but promising area of scholarship. Further studies are needed to achieve greater conceptual clarity and to develop culturally responsive and psychometrically robust measures. Systematic review registration https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/E6WXM

The urgency of this research lies in the importance of formative assessment for monitoring students’ learning progress and improving Pancasila Education in elementary schools. However, its implementation still faces challenges, including limited time, administrative workload, insufficient instrument variety, and suboptimal use of feedback. This study aims to analyze teachers’ perceptions of the effectiveness of formative assessment instruments, identify implementation barriers, and describe teachers’ efforts to overcome these challenges in Grade V at SD Negeri 071202 Helezalulu. This research employed a descriptive qualitative approach involving two Grade V teachers, one school principal, and four students as informants. Data were collected through observation, semi-structured interviews, and documentation, then analyzed using open coding, axial coding, and selective coding. Data trustworthiness was examined through source and technique triangulation. The findings indicate that teachers perceived formative assessment instruments positively because they helped monitor students’ understanding, identify learning difficulties, provide feedback, and determine instructional follow-up. The identified barriers were addressed through instrument simplification, careful planning, staged assessment, reflection, and teacher collaboration. The study concludes that formative assessment effectiveness depends not only on instrument quality but also on teacher competence, student characteristics, and school support. ABSTRAK Urgensi penelitian ini terletak pada pentingnya penilaian formatif untuk memantau perkembangan belajar siswa dan memperbaiki pembelajaran Pendidikan Pancasila di sekolah dasar. Namun, penerapannya masih menghadapi kendala berupa keterbatasan waktu, beban administrasi, variasi instrumen, dan pemanfaatan umpan balik yang belum optimal. Penelitian ini bertujuan menganalisis persepsi guru terhadap efektivitas instrumen penilaian formatif, mengidentifikasi hambatan penerapannya, serta mendeskripsikan upaya guru dalam mengatasi hambatan tersebut di kelas V SD Negeri 071202 Helezalulu. Penelitian menggunakan pendekatan deskriptif kualitatif dengan melibatkan dua guru kelas V, satu kepala sekolah, dan empat siswa sebagai informan. Data dikumpulkan melalui observasi, wawancara semi-terstruktur, dan dokumentasi, kemudian dianalisis melalui open coding, axial coding, dan selective coding. Keabsahan data diperiksa melalui triangulasi sumber dan teknik. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa guru memiliki persepsi positif terhadap efektivitas instrumen penilaian formatif dalam memantau pemahaman siswa, mengidentifikasi kesulitan belajar, memberikan umpan balik, dan menentukan tindak lanjut pembelajaran. Kendala diatasi melalui penyederhanaan instrumen, perencanaan, penilaian bertahap, refleksi, dan kolaborasi antarguru. Penelitian menyimpulkan bahwa efektivitas penilaian formatif bergantung pada kualitas instrumen, kompetensi guru, karakteristik siswa, dan dukungan sekolah.

Currently, no practical instrument is available to evaluate sleep health literacy in nurses. This study aimed to translate the Sleep Health Communication scale into Chinese and examine its psychometric properties. Translation was performed following the standard procedures of the classic Brislin translation model. Cross-sectional survey was conducted between May 1 and June 1, 2025, in a large general hospital located in Southeast China. The survey battery consisted of demographic information, the Sleep Health Literacy scale (SHL), and the Anxiety and Preoccupation about Sleep Questionnaire (APSQ). Random subsample 1 ( n = 317) was used for item analysis and exploratory factor analysis (EFA). Random subsample 2 ( n = 318) was utilised to test internal consistency, perform confirmatory factor analysis, and calculate convergent validity and discriminant validity. Forty randomly selected participants were retested one month later to assess test-retest reliability. Six experts in relevant disciplines were recruited to evaluate content validity. Concurrent validity was assessed via Pearson correlation analysis between the total score of the SHC and the overall score of the APSQ. The Chinese version of the SHC scale comprised 2 dimensions with a total of 9 items. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) supported this two-factor model with acceptable model fit indices: χ 2 /df = 2.946, RMSEA = 0.078. The overall Cronbach’s α coefficient of the scale was 0.889, and the McDonald’s ω coefficient was 0.894. The test-retest reliability yielded an r value of 0.881, and the two-way mixed-effects model intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) value of 0.866. The item-level content validity index (I-CVI) ranged from 0.833 to 1.000, and the scale-level average content validity index (S-CVI/Ave) was 0.944. Concurrent validity was calculated by correlating total SHC scores with total APSQ scores; the correlation coefficient was r = − 0.187( p < 0.01). The SHC-C exhibited preliminary reliability and validity. Notably, the overall concurrent validity of this scale with the APSQ was weak. The two-item Critical Application factor exhibited an even weaker, non-significant correlation and limited internal consistency. Its psychometric properties should be further validated using larger and more diverse samples. Not applicable.

Background Simulated interviews could provide behavioral information for young-adult mental-health research, including studies of social-evaluative anxiety. Their value depends on reliable observer impressions and interpretable links to participants’ self-reports. We examined personality expression, affective communication, self-observer correspondence, and competence impressions in emerging adults. Methods Two video-interview protocols were administered to participants aged 18–23 years: an occupationally framed protocol ( n = 55 ) and a broader personality-oriented protocol ( n = 33 ); 30 participants completed both. The protocols covered parallel HEXACO-related domains but differed in both framing and question content. Participants completed HEXACO self-reports and selected one of five valence-arousal categories after each response. Four observers rated personality expression, affective communication, and competence. We distinguished focused domain-matched tests from secondary question-level tests and exploratory correlation matrices, reported 95% confidence intervals, used permutation tests, and controlled the false-discovery rate within analysis families. Results Self-reported HEXACO scores were similar across protocols except for lower Agreeableness in the broader protocol (mean difference = − 0.23 , 95% CI [ − 0.35 , − 0.12 ] , q = 0.004 ). Global valence was more positive in the broader protocol (mean difference = 0.30 , 95% CI [ 0.15 , 0.45 ] , q < 0.001 ), whereas the arousal difference was uncertain. Reliability was heterogeneous: personality and competence ICCs ranged from 0.27 to 0.65 and 0.35 to 0.64 in the occupational protocol and from 0.33 to 0.58 and 0.22 to 0.73 in the broader protocol. Question-level affect ICCs were approximately 0.00 to 0.60 and − 0.91 to 0.03, respectively. Occupational self-observer correlations for Extraversion and Agreeableness survived correction; no broader-protocol personality correlation did. Strong same-observer personality-competence associations survived correction in both protocols, but broader-protocol affect-competence associations did not. Conclusions Affective reports differed between protocols, but question content also differed, precluding a pure context effect. Observer-rating reliability and self-observer correspondence identify conditions for future mental-health studies pairing simulated interviews with validated symptom and functioning measures.

Traditional diagnostic systems, such as the DSM-5 and ICD-11, suffer from well-documented limitations, including high comorbidity rates, arbitrary diagnostic thresholds, and within-disorder heterogeneity. Consequently, the field is evolving towards hierarchical, transdiagnostic, dimensional models of psychopathology. This study reports on the development and initial validation of the Multidimensional Transdiagnostic Inventory of Psychopathology (MTIP). This new broadband inventory aligns traditional DSM disorders with contemporary dimensional models of psychopathology. We conducted initial development and basic psychometric analyses in a mixed sample of 301 adults. We then validated the MTIP in a second independent sample (N = 826), of which 640 who self-reported no history of past mental health treatment were used as our normative/reference sample. The final MTIP contained 13 clinical scales and seven supplemental scales. All the MTIP scales met core psychometric assumptions at the item, scale, and transdiagnostic levels. A series of exploratory and second-order factor analyses supported the MTIP hierarchical dimensional structure. Concurrent validity correlations with the DSM-5 level 1 cross-cutting symptom measure were strong, ranging from 0.89 (depression) to 0.51 (drug misuse). Regression analyses supported the construct validity of the higher-order transdiagnostic scales. Twelve of the 13 clinical scales differentiated individuals with a history of mental health care from those without past care, with effect sizes ranging from 0.20 (Alcohol Misuse) to 1.06 (Anxiety). Effect sizes for the transdiagnostic scales ranged from 0.33 (Thought Dysregulation) to 1.07 (Emotion Dysregulation). The clinical implications and potential applications of the MTIP are discussed.

Introduction Collaborative problem solving has become a key educational competence, yet existing observational instruments often assess only selected aspects of collaboration, rely on labor-intensive micro-analytic coding, or are tied to specific task contexts. To address these limitations, this study developed and validated the Collaborative Problem Solving Observation Grid (CPS-OG), an evidence-based observational instrument designed to provide a comprehensive, task-independent, macro-level assessment of collaboration quality. The instrument is grounded in four empirically derived dimensions of CPS: socio-cognitive exchange, socio-emotional exchange, task regulation, and group regulation. Method Validation was conducted with 84 groups of secondary school students working in triads ( N = 73) or dyads ( N = 11) on scientific and civic literacy tasks. The psychometric evaluation included analyses of interrater reliability, internal consistency, construct validity, and criterion-related validity. Results Across both task domains, the CPS-OG demonstrated excellent interrater reliability, good internal consistency, and preliminary support for the internal coherence of the four-conceptual dimensions, consistent with findings from a recent systematic review of CPS quality. The four dimensions included in the instrument showed meaningful associations with Mercer's dialogue types and group product quality, providing further evidence of criterion validity. The consistency of findings across scientific and civic literacy tasks indicates the instrument's robustness in different task contexts. Discussion Overall, the findings suggest that the CPS-OG is a reliable and promising observational instrument. It offers a comprehensive approach to monitoring and assessing collaborative problem solving, providing researchers and practitioners with a practical tool for evaluating collaboration across diverse educational tasks.

In most societies, using more than one language or language variety is the norm, yet the reference data against which children’s speech is judged derive largely from monolingual speakers. Systematic cross-linguistic variation is therefore liable to be read as atypical development, placing multilingual children at risk of misdiagnosis of speech sound disorder (SSD). This risk is most acute for closely related, understudied varieties, where difference and disorder overlap and community-specific data are scarce. Acoustic measures (e.g., voice onset time, vowel formants, segment durations) quantify fine-grained, continuous properties of speech production that categorical, transcription-based description obscures. No existing review, however, has mapped which acoustic measures have been applied to multilingual children, across which language varieties, or against which reference baselines their productions are interpreted. The objective of this review is to provide that map, showing where acoustic evidence is concentrated and where it is absent, to support clinical assessment and to identify where community-specific reference data are most needed. The review will follow updated Joanna Briggs Institute scoping review methodology and will be reported per the PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews. Searches will be conducted in MEDLINE (Ovid), Embase (Ovid), CINAHL (EBSCO), Web of Science Core Collection, and Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, with grey literature sought through ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global and conference proceedings; no date limits will be applied. Children from birth to 18 years are eligible regardless of clinical status, and a preschool subset (≤ 5;11) will be reported separately. After pilot calibration, two reviewers will independently screen and chart sources, resolving disagreements by discussion or a third reviewer. Charted data will be mapped through an acoustic-measure taxonomy crossed with language variety and reference baseline. This protocol has been registered on the Open Science Framework (OSF https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/R2EX5 ).

Social deduction games require people to identify the truth-tellers and liars based on limited and vague information. This exploratory study investigated the relationship between agreeableness, neuroticism and accuracy of deception judgment in a structured social-deduction task. Sixty-three participants aged 15-35 completed a 120-item Big Five personality inventory and then observed the materials from a Werewolf game before making five judgments, three hidden-role judgments and two truth-value judgments. The results showed that neuroticism was negatively correlated with the accuracy of judgment (r = -0.294, p = .019, 95% CI [-0.505, -0.050]), and agreeableness was not significantly related to accuracy (r = -0.128, p = .317, 95% CI [-0.364, 0.124]). Exploratory analysis of trait combinations also showed that the mean accuracy of the agreeableness and neuroticism groups was different. Therefore, it is proposed that neuroticism may be linked to differences in the judgement of deception among individuals, but agreeableness alone was not significantly associated with performance in the current task. As an exploratory correlational study, the results provide an initial indication of personality differences in deception judgment under the circumstances of structured social interaction.

Introduction Research on associations between pornography viewing and sexual violence has been limited by the absence of validated instruments that differentiate exposure along a violence continuum within pornographic practices, with existing measures focused on consumption frequency or problematic patterns rather than on the specific content consumed. The Pornography Violence Exposure Scale (PVES) was developed to assess exposure to pornographic content graded across three violence levels: non-violent material and domination-without-pain (Level 1), coercive content (Level 2), and explicit physical aggression (Level 3). Methods A cross-sectional study with 2,181 Spanish young adults aged 18–35 years who reported viewing pornography examined factor structure, measurement invariance across sex and age, convergent, nomological, and incremental validity, and discriminative capacity for sexual violence outcomes via Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis. Results A bifactor model demonstrated good fit (CFI = 0.978, TLI = 0.957, RMSEA = 0.076), with a dominant general factor (ωH = 0.84, ECV = 0.81) capturing graded exposure to violent content. Strict measurement invariance was supported across sex and age groups. Convergent correlations with sexual violence outcomes (mean | r | = 0.24) substantially exceeded near-zero nomological associations with sexual function and partner-evaluation indicators (mean |r| = 0.03), and the general factor produced significant incremental validity for both victimization (Δ R 2 = 0.088) and perpetration (Δ R 2 = 0.200), with acceptable discrimination for perpetration (AUC = 0.753). Discussion The PVES is the first psychometrically validated instrument for measuring differentiated exposure to violent pornographic content, enabling more precise investigation of content-specific associations with sexual violence outcomes.

Background The Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale for Youth (DASS-Y) has been validated in several countries, but its measurement equivalence between Middle Eastern and East Asian adolescents remains untested, and prior validations primarily relied on single analytic approaches without examining complex factor structures or brief screening forms. This study evaluated the DASS-Y in Lebanese adolescents enduring sociopolitical strain and Chinese adolescents under comparatively stable conditions. Methods The sample comprised 758 Lebanese ( M age = 15.95, SD = 1.78; 63.2% female) and 1,062 Chinese adolescents ( M age = 16.83, SD = 0.59; 47.5% female). Psychometric properties were examined using confirmatory factor analysis, exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM), and bifactor variants of both. Differential item functioning was assessed using Rasch analysis. Reliability was indexed by composite reliability (CR), average variance extracted (AVE), and person separation reliability. Results Lebanese adolescents showed a largely unidimensional pattern, whereas an ESEM solution better represented the Chinese data. Reliability was strong in both samples (subscale CR = 0.91 to 0.95, AVE = 0.58 to 0.71, person separation reliability = 0.79 to 0.85; total CR = 0.97 in both samples; total AVE = 0.63 for the Lebanese and 0.61 for the Chinese sample). Several items, mainly in the stress subscale, functioned non-equivalently across samples. The 12-item short form performed comparably (subscale CR = 0.88 to 0.92, AVE = 0.65 to 0.73; total CR = 0.96 and 0.94; total AVE = 0.64 and 0.57, respectively). Conclusions Lebanese adolescents’ responses reflected a unitary distress construct, whereas Chinese adolescents’ responses showed greater differentiation among depression, anxiety, and stress, though a general distress factor remained dominant in both samples. Reliability was high throughout, so this divergence is structural rather than a matter of measurement precision. The 12-item form offers a practical screening option pending further cross-national confirmation.

زمینه: مقیاس افسردگی، اضطراب و استرس برای نوجوانان (DASS-Y) در چندین کشور اعتبارسنجی شده است، اما معادل‌سازی سنجشی آن بین نوجوانان خاورمیانه‌ای و شرق آسیایی تاکنون بررسی نشده است و اعتبارسنجی‌های پیشین عمدتاً بر رویکردهای تحلیلی منفرد تکیه داشته‌اند، بدون آنکه ساختارهای عاملی پیچیده یا فرم‌های غربالگری کوتاه را بررسی کنند. این مطالعه به ارزیابی DASS-Y در نوجوانان لبنانی که تحت فشارهای اجتماعی-سیاسی قرار دارند و نوجوانان چینی در شرایط نسبتاً باثبات پرداخت. روش‌ها: نمونه شامل ۷۵۸ نوجوان لبنانی (میانگین سن = ۱۵٫۹۵، انحراف معیار = ۱٫۷۸؛ ۶۳٫۲٪ دختر) و ۱۰۶۲ نوجوان چینی (میانگین سن = ۱۶٫۸۳، انحراف معیار = ۰٫۵۹؛ ۴۷٫۵٪ دختر) بود. ویژگی‌های روان‌سنجی با استفاده از تحلیل عاملی تأییدی، مدل‌یابی معادلات ساختاری اکتشافی (ESEM) و گونه‌های بای‌فاکتور هر دو روش بررسی شد. عملکرد افتراقی گویه‌ها با تحلیل Rasch ارزیابی گردید. پایایی با شاخص‌های پایایی ترکیبی (CR)، واریانس استخراج‌شده متوسط (AVE) و پایایی جداسازی فردی سنجیده شد. نتایج: نوجوانان لبنانی عمدتاً الگوی تک‌بعدی نشان دادند، در حالی که راه‌حل ESEM نمایانگر بهتری برای داده‌های چینی بود. پایایی در هر دو نمونه قوی بود (پایایی ترکیبی زیرمقیاس‌ها = ۰٫۹۱ تا ۰٫۹۵، AVE = ۰٫۵۸ تا ۰٫۷۱، پایایی جداسازی فردی = ۰٫۷۹ تا ۰٫۸۵؛ پایایی ترکیبی کل = ۰٫۹۷ در هر دو نمونه؛ AVE کل = ۰٫۶۳ برای نمونه لبنانی و ۰٫۶۱ برای نمونه چینی). چندین گویه، عمدتاً در زیرمقیاس استرس، عملکرد غیرمعادل در بین نمونه‌ها داشتند. فرم کوتاه ۱۲ گویه‌ای عملکردی مشابه داشت (پایایی ترکیبی زیرمقیاس‌ها = ۰٫۸۸ تا ۰٫۹۲، AVE = ۰٫۶۵ تا ۰٫۷۳؛ پایایی ترکیبی کل = ۰٫۹۶ و ۰٫۹۴؛ AVE کل = ۰٫۶۴ و ۰٫۵۷ به ترتیب). نتیجه‌گیری: پاسخ‌های نوجوانان لبنانی بازتاب‌دهنده یک سازه واحد پریشانی بود، در حالی که پاسخ‌های نوجوانان چینی تمایز بیشتری میان افسردگی، اضطراب و استرس نشان داد، هرچند عامل کلی پریشانی در هر دو نمونه غالب باقی ماند. پایایی در سراسر مطالعه بالا بود، بنابراین این تفاوت ساختاری است نه مربوط به دقت اندازه‌گیری. فرم ۱۲ گویه‌ای، گزینه‌ای عملی برای غربالگری ارائه می‌دهد تا زمانی که تأیید بین‌کشوری بیشتری صورت گیرد.

Background External ventricular drainage (EVD) is an important intervention in the management of patients with severe neurological conditions, and standardized nursing care is essential for preventing complications and ensuring patient safety. Nurses’ knowledge of recommended EVD care practices is an important foundation for safe and evidence-based care. However, existing instruments for assessing EVD-related nursing knowledge are often lengthy or have limited psychometric validation, which may restrict their use in routine clinical assessment and large-scale training. Therefore, a brief, reliable, and psychometrically robust instrument is needed to efficiently assess nurses’ knowledge of EVD care practices and identify areas requiring targeted education. Aim To translate and culturally adapt the Short Knowledge Test to Evaluate Awareness of External Ventricular Drain Care Practices and evaluate its psychometric properties among Chinese nurses using the Rasch model, thereby providing a reliable tool for the rapid assessment of nurses’ self-reported knowledge of recommended EVD care practices and the identification of targeted training needs. Method The original scale was translated and culturally adapted into Chinese using the Brislin forward–backward translation method, resulting in the Chinese version of the Short Knowledge Test to Evaluate Awareness of External Ventricular Drain Care Practices (C-SKT-EVD). A cross-sectional survey was conducted among clinical nurses recruited from First Affiliated Hospital of Jinzhou Medical University, Liaoning Province, mainland China. 242 valid participants included in the final analysis. Descriptive statistics were performed using SPSS version 26.0, and the psychometric properties of the scale were evaluated using the Rasch Rating Scale Model in Winsteps version 3.72.3, focusing on unidimensionality, item fit, category functioning, item–person distribution, test information function, separation indices and reliability, and differential item functioning (DIF). Results The empirical variance explained by the measures was 55.1%, and the eigenvalue of the first contrast was 1.4, supporting the unidimensionality of the C-SKT-EVD. The Infit mean-square (MNSQ) values for the seven items ranged from 0.94 to 1.16, while the Outfit MNSQ values ranged from 0.94 to 1.07, all indicating acceptable fit to the Rasch model. The point-measure correlation coefficients (PT-Measure Corr.) ranged from 0.63 to 0.70, suggesting good alignment between the items and the underlying latent construct. The observed average measures across the five rating categories increased monotonically, and the category thresholds were ordered sequentially. The category probability curves also showed clearly defined peaks, indicating that the rating categories functioned well and that no category collapsing was required. The item difficulty distribution was generally well matched to the respondents’ levels of self-reported EVD care knowledge, and the test information function indicated higher measurement precision around the average level of the measured construct, with relatively less information provided for respondents with extremely high or low levels of the latent trait. Conclusion The C-SKT-EVD demonstrated generally acceptable Rasch measurement properties in the present sample of Chinese nurses, providing preliminary evidence for its use as a brief screening and educational assessment tool for self-reported knowledge of recommended EVD care practices. However, these findings do not establish comprehensive validity or objective clinical competence. Further multicenter studies in diverse nursing populations are needed to confirm its broader applicability.

زمینه: درناژ بطنی خارجی (EVD) یک مداخله مهم در مدیریت بیماران با شرایط شدید نورولوژیک است و مراقبت پرستاری استاندارد برای پیشگیری از عوارض و تضمین ایمنی بیمار ضروری است. دانش پرستاران درباره مراقبت‌های توصیه‌شده EVD، پایه‌ای مهم برای مراقبت ایمن و مبتنی بر شواهد به‌شمار می‌رود. با این حال، ابزارهای موجود برای سنجش دانش پرستاری مرتبط با EVD اغلب طولانی یا دارای روایی و پایایی روان‌سنجی محدودی هستند که ممکن است استفاده از آن‌ها را در ارزیابی‌های بالینی روتین و آموزش‌های وسیع محدود کند. بنابراین، وجود ابزاری کوتاه، پایا و دارای ویژگی‌های روان‌سنجی قوی برای سنجش کارآمد دانش پرستاران درباره مراقبت‌های EVD و شناسایی حوزه‌های نیازمند آموزش هدفمند ضروری است. هدف: ترجمه و بومی‌سازی فرهنگی آزمون کوتاه دانش برای ارزیابی آگاهی از مراقبت‌های درناژ بطنی خارجی و ارزیابی ویژگی‌های روان‌سنجی آن در میان پرستاران چینی با استفاده از مدل Rasch، به‌منظور ارائه ابزاری پایا برای ارزیابی سریع دانش خودگزارشی پرستاران از مراقبت‌های توصیه‌شده EVD و شناسایی نیازهای آموزشی هدفمند. روش: مقیاس اصلی با استفاده از روش ترجمه پیشرو–پسرو Brislin به زبان چینی ترجمه و بومی‌سازی فرهنگی شد و نسخه چینی آزمون کوتاه دانش برای ارزیابی آگاهی از مراقبت‌های درناژ بطنی خارجی (C-SKT-EVD) حاصل گردید. یک مطالعه مقطعی در میان پرستاران بالینی شاغل در بیمارستان وابسته اول دانشگاه علوم پزشکی Jinzhou، استان لیائونینگ، چین انجام شد. ۲۴۲ شرکت‌کننده معتبر در تحلیل نهایی وارد شدند. آمار توصیفی با استفاده از SPSS نسخه ۲۶.۰ انجام شد و ویژگی‌های روان‌سنجی مقیاس با مدل Rasch Rating Scale در نرم‌افزار Winsteps نسخه ۳.۷۲.۳ ارزیابی گردید و بر یک‌بعدی بودن، برازش ماده، عملکرد دسته‌بندی، توزیع ماده–فرد، تابع اطلاعات آزمون، شاخص‌های جداسازی و پایایی، و عملکرد افتراقی ماده (DIF) تمرکز شد. نتایج: واریانس تجربی تبیین‌شده توسط اندازه‌گیری‌ها ۵۵.۱٪ بود و مقدار ویژه اولین کنتراست ۱.۴ به‌دست آمد که یک‌بعدی بودن C-SKT-EVD را تأیید می‌کند. مقادیر Infit میانگین مربع (MNSQ) برای هفت ماده بین ۰.۹۴ تا ۱.۱۶ و مقادیر Outfit MNSQ بین ۰.۹۴ تا ۱.۰۷ بود که همگی برازش قابل قبول به مدل Rasch را نشان می‌دهند. ضرایب همبستگی نقطه–اندازه‌گیری (PT-Measure Corr.) بین ۰.۶۳ تا ۰.۷۰ بود که هم‌راستایی خوب مواد با سازه نهفته را نشان می‌دهد. میانگین اندازه‌گیری مشاهده‌شده در پنج دسته‌بندی امتیازدهی به‌صورت یکنواخت افزایش یافت و آستانه‌های دسته‌بندی به‌ترتیب مرتب بودند. منحنی‌های احتمال دسته‌بندی نیز اوج‌های مشخصی داشتند که نشان‌دهنده عملکرد مناسب دسته‌بندی‌ها و عدم نیاز به ادغام دسته‌ها بود. توزیع دشواری مواد به‌طور کلی با سطح دانش خودگزارشی مراقبت EVD پاسخ‌دهندگان تطابق داشت و تابع اطلاعات آزمون دقت اندازه‌گیری بالاتری را در سطح متوسط سازه اندازه‌گیری‌شده نشان داد، در حالی که برای پاسخ‌دهندگان با سطوح بسیار بالا یا پایین ویژگی نهفته، اطلاعات نسبتاً کمتری فراهم شد. نتیجه‌گیری: C-SKT-EVD در نمونه حاضر از پرستاران چینی ویژگی‌های اندازه‌گیری Rasch قابل قبولی را نشان داد و شواهد اولیه‌ای برای استفاده از آن به‌عنوان ابزار غربالگری و ارزیابی آموزشی کوتاه برای دانش خودگزارشی مراقبت‌های توصیه‌شده EVD فراهم کرد. با این حال، این یافته‌ها روایی جامع یا شایستگی بالینی عینی را اثبات نمی‌کند. مطالعات چندمرکزی بیشتر در جمعیت‌های متنوع پرستاری برای تأیید کاربرد وسیع‌تر آن مورد نیاز است.