Search Results - "Kam, Chester Chun Seng"

Emotional reactions of anger and shame to the norm violation characterizing episodes of interpersonal harm by Kam, Chester Chun-Seng, Bond, Michael Harris

“…Norms are the socially shared restraints by which human behaviour is regulated. When applied to events involving interpersonal harm, the perceived level of…”
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Factor structure of the attitudes toward cheating scale: An exploratory structural equation modeling analysis by Kam, Chester Chun Seng, Hue, Ming Tak, Cheung, Hoi Yan, Risavy, Stephen D.

“…Although the attitude of students toward academic cheating has been an important variable in academic misconduct research, few researchers have examined the…”
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Role of emotions and behavioural responses in mediating the impact of face loss on relationship deterioration: Are Chinese more face-sensitive than Americans? by Kam, Chester Chun-Seng, Bond, Michael Harris

“…Face loss, defined as the deterioration in one's social image, has been regarded as a consequence of interpersonal conflict and a provocation for…”
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Why Do Regular and Reversed Items Load on Separate Factors? Response Difficulty vs. Item Extremity by Kam, Chester Chun Seng

“…When constructing measurement scales, regular and reversed items are often used (e.g., “I am satisfied with my job”/“I am not satisfied with my job”). Some…”
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Examination of the validity of instructed response items in identifying careless respondents by Kam, Chester Chun Seng, Chan, Gabriel Hoi-huen

“…This study asks whether instructed response items validly detect careless respondents. We found that instructed response items have high internal consistency,…”
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A Constrained Factor Mixture Model for Detecting Careless Responses that is Simple to Implement by Kam, Chester Chun Seng, Cheung, Shu Fai

“…Using constrained factor mixture models (FMM) for careless response identification is still in its infancy. Existing models have overly restrictive statistical…”
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Investigating Response Heterogeneity in the Context of Positively and Negatively Worded Items by Using Factor Mixture Modeling by Kam, Chester Chun Seng, Fan, Xitao

“…Factor mixture modeling was used to investigate potential response incongruity between positively and negatively worded items. Survey respondents (N = 591)…”
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Measuring Self-Esteem with Expanded Format in a Fraction of Time: ESE-S and ESE-US by Kam, Chester Chun Seng, Cheng, Emily Hongzhen, Cui, Tianxue

“…Despite the ubiquity of Likert format scales, they are not without problems-distorted dimensionality being one of the most serious. Zhang and Savalei proposed…”
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Careless Responding Threatens Factorial Analytic Results and Construct Validity of Personality Measure by Kam, Chester Chun Seng

“…The current research investigates the impact of careless responding on factorial analytic results and construct validity with real data. Results showed that…”
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Exploring the factors relating to academic resilience among students with socioeconomic disadvantages: Factors from individual, school, and family domains by Cui, Tianxue, Kam, Chester Chun Seng, Cheng, Emily Hongzhen, Liu, Qimeng

“…This study aimed to explore factors related to academic success (resilience) for students with socioeconomic disadvantages (SED) from the individual, school,…”
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Why Do We Still Have an Impoverished Understanding of the Item Wording Effect? An Empirical Examination by Kam, Chester Chun Seng

“…The item wording (or keying) effect is respondents’ differential response style to positively and negatively worded items. Despite decades of research, the…”
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Distinguishing between trait desirability and item desirability in predicting item scores: Is informant evaluation of personality free from social desirability? by Cui, Tianxue, Kam, Chester Chun Seng, Cheng, Emily Hongzhen, Ho, Man Yee

“…It is often assumed that informant, or peer evaluation is more trustworthy than self-evaluation because the former is less vulnerable to social desirability…”
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Is the Dark Triad Better Studied Using a Variable- or a Person-Centered Approach? An Exploratory Investigation by Kam, Chester Chun Seng, Zhou, Mingming

“…Despite Allport's early call to study personality as a coordinated system of traits within individual rather than separate traits, researchers often assume…”
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Method factor due to the use of reverse-keyed items: Is it simply a response style artifact? by Kam, Chester Chun Seng, Sun, Shaojing

“…The method factor is usually conceptualized as the unexplained variance due to the use of more than one method to measure a construct. In the context of item…”
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Implications of Item Keying and Item Valence for the Investigation of Construct Dimensionality by Seng Kam, Chester Chun, Meyer, John P.

“…Factor analysis and nomological network analysis are commonly used as complementary procedures in the investigation of the dimensionality of constructs (e.g.,…”
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Predicting emotional reactions after being harmed by another by Lee, Yat-Yee, Kam, Chester Chun-Seng, Bond, Michael H.

“…Being harmed by others is a frequent and disturbing experience in normal social life, resulting in the arousal of two emotional complexes, anger and worry. The…”
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Validation of a Chinese Version of the Psychological Sense of School Membership (C-PSSM): Tests of Measurement Invariance and Latent Mean Differences by Teo, Timothy, Cheung, Hoi Yan, Kam, Chester Chun Seng

“…This study examined the factorial structure of the Chinese version psychological sense of school membership scale (C-PSSM) (Cheung and Hui Asia Pacific…”
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Expanded format shows better response consistency than Likert-scale format in the measurement of optimism by Kam, Chester Chun Seng

“…Response consistency refers to participants' tendency to give similar responses to items with the same content, and it offers advantages beyond the traditional…”
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Testing the Assumption of Population Homogeneity in the Measurement of Dispositional Optimism: Factor Mixture Modeling Analysis by Kam, Chester Chun Seng

“…The assumption of population homogeneity in the measurement of dispositional optimism was examined. U.S. and Canadian respondents (N = 591) completed an…”
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Bifactor Model Is Not the Best-Fitting Model for Self-Esteem: Investigation With a Novel Technique by Kam, Chester Chun Seng

“…In the measurement of self-esteem, previous research assumes that all respondents are qualitatively similar. The assumption has not been adequately tested. The…”
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