dat.demir2022: Studies on the Reliability of the MIBS Scale

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Studies on the Reliability of the MIBS Scale

Description

Results from 26 studies on the reliability of the Mother-to-Infant Bonding Scale (MIBS).

Usage

dat.demir2022

Format

The data frame contains the following columns:

studyid	numeric	study ID
esid	numeric	effect size ID
author	character	author(s) of the study
year	numeric	publication year
pubtype	character	publication type (Article or Thesis)
country	character	country
participants	character	participant characteristics
n	numeric	sample size
alpha	numeric	Cronbach's alpha
items	numeric	number of items in the scale

Details

The Mother-to-Infant Bonding Scale (MIBS) is an 8-item Likert-type questionnaire to evaluate caregiver-infant attachment. Demir et al. (2022) carried out a meta-analysis of 26 studies (reporting 33 Cronbach's alpha values) to assess the reliability of the scale.

Concepts

psychology, Cronbach's alpha, reliability generalization

Author(s)

Wolfgang Viechtbauer, [e-mail], https://www.metafor-project.org

Source

Demir, E., Öz, S., Aral, N., & Gürsoy, F. (2022). A reliability generalization meta-analysis of the Mother-to-Infant Bonding Scale. Psychological Reports, 127(1), 447–464. ⁠https://doi.org/10.1177/00332941221114413⁠

Examples

### copy data into 'dat' and examine data
dat <- dat.demir2022
dat

## Not run: 
### load metafor package
library(metafor)

### transform the alpha values using the Bonett (2022) transformation
dat <- escalc(measure="ABT", ai=alpha, ni=n, mi=items, data=dat)
dat

### meta-analysis using a random-effects model
res <- rma(yi, vi, data=dat)
res

### back-transform the results
predict(res, transf=transf.iabt, digits=2)

## End(Not run)

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