Construct validity

The French Revolution commenced in 1789. A good majority of historians can come to an understanding that the French Revolution was an affair that altered Europe forever, very similar to the American Revolution, and that happen just ten years prior. The reasons for the French Revolution are not easy to specifically state an exact cause. Overseas, quite a few major wars had occurred in the 30 plus years preceding the French Revolution, also France was involved somewhat, in most of them. The…

Pragmatism is a Philosophical movement or system having various forms, but generally stressing practical consequences as constituting the essential criterion in determining meaning truth or value. The word Pragmatism as a piece of technical terminology in philosophy refers to a specific set of associated philosophical views originating in the late 19th century. Pragmatism as a Philosophical movement began in the United States in the 1870s; C.S. Peirce is given credit for its development along…

Chandra Mohanty, writer of “Under the Western Eyes,” tries to challenge the traditional “Western feminist” discourse on women in the third world. Mohanty’s purpose is not to question the knowledge and value of Western feminist writings on women in the third world, but to uncover ethnocentric universalism (presuppositions and implicit principles). She claims that women in the third world are portrayed as sharing a homogeneous oppression. Instead, she asks Western feminists to take into account…

projective tests that are available would be sentence completion or asking a client “if you had 3 wishes what would they be?” (Martinez, 2012). The projective tests are limited to the examiners opinion, so they fail to be proven in reliability and validity…

The authors describe the development of the TICOMETER, a brief assessment tool that shows reliability and validity in measuring trauma-informed care (TIC) within an organization. The 35-item questionnaire can be completed in approximately 15-minutes by any individual in the workforce. It can be used once to determine the level of TIC to those being served, or used repeatedly to gauge progress of training. This article was chosen because it raises the importance of addressing whether or not…

Research Critique Research Purpose: Pressure ulcers are a key-contributing factor to health problems in the inpatient setting. On average, those who acquire pressure ulcers are individuals in the elderly community. It plays a part in a patient’s well-being and standard of living. The phenomenological study of this qualitative research study indicates that the impact of pressure ulcers caused patients to live with challenges through their daily lives physically, emotionally and both mentally…

outcomes research, qualitative methods can be useful for development of patient-centered quantitative instruments. For example, the usage of qualitative methods in the initial stage of developing patient-centered quantitative measures of health-related constructs. The role of qualitative studies in this…

Time is Not Measured by Clocks Throughout the novel, Austerlitz, by W. G. Sebald, protagonist Austerlitz continuously dissects and challenges the notion of time while telling his life’s story to the novels narrator. Austerlitz spends hours on end in train stations, empty cafes, and wandering throughout neighborhoods thus proving in many cases that time to him does not matter. Furthermore, due to Austerlitz’s traumatic past, he never fully lived through his own experiences and therefore in his…

war that became the common histories of the Holocaust up to more recent publications; the second examines narrative theory via philosophy and theology, as well as debating the “uniqueness” of the Holocaust in history. The central argument Stone constructs is that the Holocaust “provides both the occasion for, and the ultimate test of, new ways of giving meaning to the past… [and] that examining our representations of the past is as important as archival…

Because of this culture close-knit community, a majority of the culture shares a parenting style of authoritative parenting. In fact, “results provide support for the cross-cultural validity of the authoritative parenting style and suggest that positive child outcomes associated with this parenting style are evident as early as age 3 in African American families” (Querido, Warner, & Eyberg, 2002, p. 275). The West African’s cultural…