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PAPER
Severson, R. L., & Lemm, K. M. (2016). Kids see human too: Adapting an individual differences measure of anthropomorphism for a child sample. Journal of Cognition and Development, 17(1), 122-141.

Construct Summary

The scale aims to measure children’s tendency to anthropomorphize. The authors define the act of anthropomorphizing as:

“the tendency to attribute human-like characteristics, particularly internal states and capabilities, to nonhuman entities” (p. 122)

Final Scale Items (12 total):

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Check? Guideline Item
✓ Is the construct defined?
✓ Does the final version of the items capture the construct as it has been defined by the authors?
✓ Is the item generation process discussed (e.g., literature review, Delphi method, crowd-sourcing)?
✓ Person to items 10:1 for the initial set of items?
✓ Did they perform an EFA, PCA, Rasch, or similar test to determine the item to factor relationship?
✓ Did they describe how they determined number of factors?
✓ Did they report the full initial set of items?
✓ Did they provide loadings (EFA) or item fits (Rasch) of all items?
✓ Is there a description of the item removal process (e.g., using infit/outfit, factor loading minimum value, or cross-loading values)?
✓ Did they list the final items included in the scale?
✓ Did they include a factor structure test (e.g., second EFA, CFA, DIF, test for unidimensionality when using Rasch, or similar)?
✓ Was a measure of reliability (e.g., Cronbach’s alpha, McDonalds Omega_h or Omega_t, Tarkkonen’s Rho) reported?
✓ Was a test of validity (e.g., predictive, concurrent, convergent, discriminant) reported?

Comments predictive validity in study 2. no CFA on child sample but did second EFA which had similar structure to first EFA. no items were removed from initial set. very little discussion on how specifically the authors went about rewording the initial set of items for this scale based on the IDAQ items.


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