🛠️ CFM Resources

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Type: Article/Tutorial

  • A Practical Guide to Building OWL Ontologies (Pizza Tutorial) (Focus: Formalization; Audience: Anyone interested in formalizing knowledge, especially using ontologies): https://tinyurl.com/NewPizzaTutorialV3-2 [added by Maya Braun (Maya.braun@ugent.be)] 👉 A tutorial on how to build ontologies using Protégé, the most popular ontology development tool

  • COSMIN methodology for content validity: a user manual (Focus: Measurement; Audience: Anyone interested in improving self-report measures): https://www.cosmin.nl/wp-content/uploads/COSMIN-methodology-for-content-validity-user-manual-v1.pdf [added by Maya Braun (Maya.braun@ugent.be)] 👉 Methodology developed by COSMIN to improve the comprehensibility, comprehensiveness and relevance of self-report measures by involving end-users

  • How to develop causal directed acyclic graphs for observational health research: a scoping review (Focus: Formalization ; Audience: Anyone interested in learning about Directed Acyclic Graphs, no prior knowledge required): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39327907/ [added by Annick De Paepe (Annick.DePaepe@Ugent.be)] 👉 This paper provides practical guidance for developing causal directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) in health psychology research

  • Knowing What We’re Talking About: Facilitating Decentralized, Unequivocal Publication of and Reference to Psychological Construct Definitions and Instructions (Focus: Conceptualization, Measurement; Audience: Anyone interested in definitions, concepts, theory, measurement, evidence synthesis, and eliciting and coding qualitative data.): https://doi.org/mr4n [added by Gjalt-Jorn Peters (gjalt-jorn.peters@ou.nl)] 👉 This paper introduces tools (Decentralized Construct Taxonomy specifications and an open source repository) to support conceptual clarification of psychological constructs for both theoretical work and applied work, and provides pointers for developing and using DCTs.

  • Recommendations for Creating Better Concept Definitions in the Organizational, Behavioral, and Social Sciences (Focus: Conceptualization; Audience: Anyone interested in definitions, concepts or theory): https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428115624965 [added by Maya Braun (Maya.braun@ugent.be)] 👉 Recommendations for better conceptualization or construct definitions

  • The Response Process Evaluation Method (Focus: Measurement; Audience: Anyone interested in measurement): https://doi.org/kcz4 [added by Gjalt-Jorn Peters (gjalt-jorn.peters@ou.nl)] 👉 This paper discusses the Response Process Evaluation approach to studying item validity; an adaptation of Cognitive Interviews to allow asynchronous processes that leverage iterative cycles to optimize measurement items.

  • Then a miracle occurs: explicating measurement theory to achieve justified validity and facilitate epistemic iteration (Focus: Conceptualization, Measurement; Audience: Anyone interested in theory and measurement.): https://doi.org/px2z [added by Gjalt-Jorn Peters (gjalt-jorn.peters@ou.nl)] 👉 This paper introduces a tool (Narrative Response Models) that help to develop valid measurement instruments. Unlike psychometric approaches, NRMs are based on an understanding of how the measurement instrument works.

  • Theory Construction Methodology: A Practical Framework for Building Theories in Psychology (Focus: Conceptualization, Formalization; Audience: Anyone interested in theory): https://doi.org/gh65nr [added by Gjalt-Jorn Peters (gjalt-jorn.peters@ou.nl)] 👉 This paper introduces Theory Construction Methodology, a tool to create theories in an iterative process, starting from pretty much scratch.

Type: Podcast

  • Define & Conquer Podcast (Focus: Conceptualization, Formalization, Measurement; Audience: No prior knowledge required): https://cfm.opens.science/define-and-conquer-podcast/ [added by Olga Perski (olga.perski@su.se)] 👉 A podcast hosted by the SIG in which we discuss issues related to the conceptualisation and measurement of psychological constructs, theory development, etc.

Type: Article

  • Back to basics: The importance of conceptual clarification in psychological science (Focus: Conceptualization, Formalization; Audience: Anyone interested in theory): https://doi.org/gqmqg5 [added by Gjalt-Jorn Peters (gjalt-jorn.peters@ou.nl)] 👉 This paper discusses the theory crisis and how conceptual clarification is required to start working towards a solution.

  • Representation of behaviour change interventions and their evaluation: Development of the Upper Level of the Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology (Focus: Conceptualization, Formulization; Audience: Anyone interested in definitions, concepts and formalizing knowledge using ontologies): https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-123/v2 [added by ] 👉 This paper introduces the upper level of the Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology, a classification system that specifies and defines aspects of behaviour change interventions, their contexts, and outcomes. The upper level presents the broadest organising classes (categories), such as ‘behaviour change technique’, ‘intervention delivery’, ‘behaviour change intervention setting’, and ‘outcome behaviour’. Some of these upper-level classes (e.g. behaviour change technique) are further elaborated in dedicated lower-level ontologies (e.g. the Behaviour Change Technique Ontology), all of which are available on Wellcome Open Research Gateway: https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/gateways/humanbehaviourchange/about

  • The Concept of Validity (Focus: Conceptualization, Measurement; Audience: Anyone interested in theory and measurement.): https://doi.org/dw3nh9 [added by Gjalt-Jorn Peters (gjalt-jorn.peters@ou.nl)] 👉 This paper provides a thorough conceptual discussion of the concept of validity, clearly delineating fatal issues with construct validity theory.

Type: Project website

  • Human Behaviour Change Project website (Focus: Conceptualization, Formulization; Audience: Anyone interested in definitions, concepts and formalizing knowledge using ontologies): https://www.humanbehaviourchange.org/ [added by Paulina Schenk (paulina.schenk.13@ucl.ac.uk)] 👉 This website outlines tools to engage with the Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology (e.g., the search tool, BCIOSearch), an ontology that specifies aspects of behaviour change interventions, their contexts and outcomes. The website also includes some training to use the ontology and additional ontology-related outputs from the Human Behaviour Change Project, such as a prediction and extraction system developed using the ontology.

Type: Article / Recommendations

  • So you want to do ESM? 10 essential topics for implementing the experience-sampling method (Focus: Measurement; Audience: Anyone interested in EMA): https://doi.org/qnww [added by Maya Braun (Maya.braun@ugent.be)] 👉 This article provides methodological guidelines on ESM, including item content and phrasing, response options, timescales etc

  • The iterative development and refinement of health psychology theories through formal, dynamical systems modelling: a scoping review and initial expert-derived ‘best practice’ recommendations (Focus: Conceptualization, Formulization; Audience: Anyone interested in further formalizing theoires): https://doi.org/nq8v [added by Maya Braun (Maya.braun@ugent.be)] 👉 This article is a review of theories formalised using dynamical systems modeling and provides expert-derived “best practice” recommendations