PMID- 32576093
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210809
LR  - 20210809
IS  - 1558-691X (Electronic)
IS  - 0033-2941 (Linking)
VI  - 124
IP  - 3
DP  - 2021 Jun
TI  - The Construct, Convergent and Divergent Validity, and Reliability of Three 
      Optimism Scales among North American University Students.
PG  - 1412-1430
LID - 10.1177/0033294120933144 [doi]
AB  - The primary objective of this study is to compare the construct, convergent and 
      divergent validity and the reliability of three optimism scales. The study relied 
      on a nonprobability sample of 100 social work students at Western Michigan 
      University in the United States (Seventy-nine percent of the sample were female, 
      and 21% were male). The sample's mean age was 26.35 years, SD = 7.70. Sixty-nine 
      percent (69%) of the respondents self-identified as White, and 31% 
      self-identified as African American, Hispanic/Latino, multiethnic, Native 
      American or Asian American. The study used confirmatory factor and multiple 
      regression analyses (CFA and MRA). The findings show that the Life Orientation 
      Test-Revised (LOT-R) and the Personal Optimism Scale (POS) were supported by 
      three indicators of goodness of fit, while the Brief Interactive Optimism 
      Scale-Garcia (BIOS-G) was supported by eight. The LOT-R showed no acceptable 
      internal consistency indicators, but the POS and the BIOS-G showed several good 
      internal consistency indicators. Correlations of all of these scales with the 
      Physical Well-being Scale-Garcia (PWS-G) ranged from r (100) = .303, p = .002 to 
      r (100) = .439, p = .000. The three scales had divergent validity because their 
      scores did not differ by gender (LOT-R: t(100) = -.885, p = .383; POS: 
      t(100) = -.263, p = .794; BIOS-G: t(100) = -.840, p = .407). The findings suggest 
      the advisability of recommending the BIOS-G, which is short and easy to use and 
      understand.
FAU - Garcia Cadena, Cirilo H
AU  - Garcia Cadena CH
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6066-7745
AD  - Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
FAU - Diaz, Hector L
AU  - Diaz HL
AD  - 4175Western Michigan University, USA.
FAU - Caycho-Rodriguez, Tomas
AU  - Caycho-Rodriguez T
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-5349-7570
AD  - 33220Universidad Privada del Norte, Peru.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20200623
PL  - United States
TA  - Psychol Rep
JT  - Psychological reports
JID - 0376475
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Factor Analysis, Statistical
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Michigan
MH  - Optimism/*psychology
MH  - Psychometrics/*standards
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Students/*psychology
MH  - *Universities
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - American university students
OT  - Reliability
OT  - construct validity
OT  - convergent validity
OT  - divergent validity
OT  - three optimism scales
EDAT- 2020/06/25 06:00
MHDA- 2021/08/10 06:00
CRDT- 2020/06/25 06:00
PHST- 2020/06/25 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/08/10 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/06/25 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1177/0033294120933144 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Psychol Rep. 2021 Jun;124(3):1412-1430. doi: 10.1177/0033294120933144. Epub 2020 
      Jun 23.