This OSF page contains the supplementary material of the book Measurement Models for Psychological Attributes by Klaas Sijtsma and Andries van der Ark. It includes the datasets and the R code used in the analyses. In addition, there is a flyere offering 20% discount on the book. Upon request, Chapter 3 (Nonparametric IRT and Mokken scale analysis) is available as a sample chapter from the second author.

Data sets

• Transitive Reasoning Scale (Bouwmeester & Sijtsma, 2004) referred to in chapters 1 and 4,
• The Type D Scale-14 (DS14; Denollet, 2005) referred to in chapters 2 and 3,
• Balance Scale (Van Maanen, Been & Sijtsma, 1989) referred to in chapter 5, and
• Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (MCMI-3, Rossi, Sloore, & Derksen, 2008; Rossi, Elklit, & Simonsen, 2010) referred to in chapter 5,

are available here from OSF and from the R package mokken using the following code:

library(mokken)
data(transreas2) # Transitive Reasoning (as of version 3.0.4)
data(DS14)       # DS-14
data(balance)    # Balance Scale (as of version 3.0.4)
data(mcmci)      # MCMI-III

Code for the statistical analysis

• Chapter 2: All analyses were conducted in R. The syntax file dataAnalysisChapter2.R is available here on OSF.
• Chapter 3: All analyses were conducted in R. The syntax file dataAnalysisChapter3.R is available here on OSF.
• Chapter 4: All analyses were conducted with MIRT (Glas, 2010). This package has now been replaced by ShinyLexter, which can be downloaded from https://shinylexter.com/. In due time the analyses of Chapter 4 will we made available for ShinyLexter. For now the data are available here on OSF (transreas2.Rdata)
• Chapter 5 (Latent Class Analysis): The latent class analyses were conducted in LEM, (Vermunt 1997) which is available free of charge from https://jeroenvermunt.nl/#Software. LEM was in fact run from R. The syntax file dataAnalysisChapter5Lca.R is available here on OSF.
• Chapter 5 (Cognitive Diagnosis Models): The Cognitive diagnosis models were estimated in R. The syntax file dataAnalysisChapter5Cdmis available here on OSF.

References

Bouwmeester, S., & Sijtsma, K. (2004). Measuring the ability of transitive reasoning, using product and strategy information. Psychometrika, 69, 123–146. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02295843

Denollet, J. (2005). DS14: Standard assessment of negative affectivity, social inhibition, and Type D personality. Psychosomatic Medicine, 67(1), 89–97. https://10.1097/01.psy.0000149256.81953.49

Glas, C.A.W. (2010). Preliminary Manual of the software program Multidimensional Item Response Theory. Enschede: University of Twente.

Rossi, G., Elklit, A., & Simonsen, E. (2010). Empirical evidence for a four factor framework of personality disorder organization: Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory–III personality disorders scales across Belgian and Danish data samples. Journal of Personality Disorders, 24(1), 128–150. https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi.2010.24.1.128

Rossi, G., Sloore, H., & Derksen, J. (2008). The adaptation of the MCMI-III in two non-English-speaking countries: State of the art of the Dutch language version. In T. Millon & C. Bloom (Eds.), The Millon inventories: A practitioner’s guide to personalized clinical assessment (2nd edition) (pp. 369–386). The Guilford Press. Partly available from Google Books

Van Maanen, L., Been, P. H., & Sijtsma, K. (1989). Problem solving strategies and the Linear Logistic Test Model. In E. E. Ch. I. Roskam (Ed.), Mathematical psychology in progress (pp. 267–287). Springer.

Vermunt, J. K. (1997). LEM: A general program for the analysis of categorical data. User’s manual. [Computer software]. https://jeroenvermunt.nl/#Software

Notices and Reviews

• April 27, 2021: Bulut, H. C., Bulut, O. K. (2021). A Review of “Measurement Models for Psychological Attributes”. Psychometrika . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11336-021-09758-1
• June 8, 2021: Nieuw boek Klaas Sijtsma: Statistische meetmodellen voor psychologische eigenschappen (in Dutch). https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/nl/intranet/meer-nieuws/statistische-meetmodellen-voor-psychologische-eigenschappen

Flyer

The flyer is available from the files section here at OSF.