El curso de BPA busca formar al docente para que sea más reflexivo, analítico y crítico, con el fin de que desarrolle ideas más complejas y tenga un entendimiento más amplio de los temas que enseña.
A Bifactor Model of the Religious and Spiritual Struggles ScaleNick Stauner
(2015, February). Poster presented at the Psychology of Religion & Spirituality Preconference for the 16th convention of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA.
Abstract:
A growing subdomain of psychological research on religion and spirituality examines the causes, consequences, and subjective experience of religious or spiritual struggle. To advance the psychological community’s understanding of religious and spiritual struggles through quantitative empirical research, Exline and colleagues recently developed a modern, multidimensional measure with excellent psychometric qualities, the Religious and Spiritual Struggles (RSS) Scale. This measure includes six correlated but unidimensional subscales pertaining specifically to divine, demonic, interpersonal, moral, ultimate meaning, and doubt struggles. Though a first-order model of these six correlated latent factors fits well in confirmatory factor analysis, this model leaves a little room for improvement. The size of the first eigenvalue suggests a possible bifactor structure, in which all items load together on a general factor as well as on their separate subscale factors. Bifactor analysis also offers information about the validity of unidimensional and multidimensional scoring systems, both of which the RSS facilitates. Using a sample of 2,702 undergraduates from the USA, a confirmatory bifactor analysis of the RSS revealed strong loadings on the general factor for most items and moderate-to-strong loadings on group factors, essentially supporting the comparable validity of both scoring methods. Though this restricted bifactor model worsened model fit very slightly, an alternate bifactor model that allowed group factors to correlate freely offered a small improvement in model fit over the conventional model of six correlated factors. Furthermore, structural equation models that included measures of religious belief salience and religious participation demonstrated strong, positive correlations between these constructs and the general RSS factor. In the conventional six-factor RSS model, religiousness correlates mostly with demonic, moral, and ultimate meaning struggles. Including the general factor in the RSS measurement model improved the independence of the subscale factors from religious belief salience and religious participation, effectively serving to control the RSS subscales’ shared covariance with religiousness. Future use of the RSS in the context of latent factor models may benefit from use of this bifactor measurement model with correlated group factors. It improves model fit, reduces subscale correlations with religiousness, and produces a psychometrically promising general factor that represents the strong covariance between religiousness and decontextualized religious and spiritual struggles.
A Bifactor Model of the Religious and Spiritual Struggles ScaleNick Stauner
(2015, February). Poster presented at the Psychology of Religion & Spirituality Preconference for the 16th convention of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA.
Abstract:
A growing subdomain of psychological research on religion and spirituality examines the causes, consequences, and subjective experience of religious or spiritual struggle. To advance the psychological community’s understanding of religious and spiritual struggles through quantitative empirical research, Exline and colleagues recently developed a modern, multidimensional measure with excellent psychometric qualities, the Religious and Spiritual Struggles (RSS) Scale. This measure includes six correlated but unidimensional subscales pertaining specifically to divine, demonic, interpersonal, moral, ultimate meaning, and doubt struggles. Though a first-order model of these six correlated latent factors fits well in confirmatory factor analysis, this model leaves a little room for improvement. The size of the first eigenvalue suggests a possible bifactor structure, in which all items load together on a general factor as well as on their separate subscale factors. Bifactor analysis also offers information about the validity of unidimensional and multidimensional scoring systems, both of which the RSS facilitates. Using a sample of 2,702 undergraduates from the USA, a confirmatory bifactor analysis of the RSS revealed strong loadings on the general factor for most items and moderate-to-strong loadings on group factors, essentially supporting the comparable validity of both scoring methods. Though this restricted bifactor model worsened model fit very slightly, an alternate bifactor model that allowed group factors to correlate freely offered a small improvement in model fit over the conventional model of six correlated factors. Furthermore, structural equation models that included measures of religious belief salience and religious participation demonstrated strong, positive correlations between these constructs and the general RSS factor. In the conventional six-factor RSS model, religiousness correlates mostly with demonic, moral, and ultimate meaning struggles. Including the general factor in the RSS measurement model improved the independence of the subscale factors from religious belief salience and religious participation, effectively serving to control the RSS subscales’ shared covariance with religiousness. Future use of the RSS in the context of latent factor models may benefit from use of this bifactor measurement model with correlated group factors. It improves model fit, reduces subscale correlations with religiousness, and produces a psychometrically promising general factor that represents the strong covariance between religiousness and decontextualized religious and spiritual struggles.
2. ¿ QUE BUSCA EL CURSO DE BPA?
Lo que busca el curso de BPA es la formación del
docente en el sentido en que seamos mas reflexivos
analíticos y críticos de tal manera que seamos mucho
mas complejos con nuestras ideas en las que
pensamos para así tener un entendimiento mucho
mas amplio de un tema al cual nos queramos enfocar
y representar