Alberto Maydeu Olivares

Alberto Maydeu Olivares

Full professor

ORCID: 0000-0001-5790-392X
Researcher ID: B-5178-2010
Knowledge area: Personalitat, Avaluació i Tractaments Psicològics

Research group: Violence, behaVior, Individual differences and Technology Studies group (WITS)

Contact Information
Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology
Facultad Psicologia. Universidad de Barcelona. P. Valle de Hebrón, 171
933125132
amaydeu(a)ub.edu

More Information: Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Ld1d9BMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao)

Academic Training

Lic. en Psicologia . Univ. de Barcelona . 07/11/1988 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Psicologia Personalidad . Universidad de Barcelona . 30/10/1991 . (Ph.D.)
Psicologia Cuantitativa . University of Illinois . 18/05/1997 . (Ph.D.)
Master Psicologia Cuantitiva . University of Illinois . 12/05/1991 . (Official Master)
Master Estadistica Matematica . University of Illinois . 15/05/1994 . (Official Master)

Teaching impartedi (last 5 years)

Anàlisi Multivariant i Models d'Equacions Estructurals (University Master's Degree) - Recerca en Comportament i Cognició - Universidad de Barcelona.

Teaching Innovation Projects

La competència informacional en el grau de Psicologia . 2015 - 2021 . Ref.2015PID-UB/009 . Universitat de Barcelona . PI: Maria Jose Corral Lopez
ViquiPsicologia: L'ús de la Viquipèdia per a la millora de la competència comunicativa per escrit . 2016 - 2019 . Ref.2015PID-UB/029 . Universitat de Barcelona . PI: David Gallardo Pujol

Research interests

modelos de ecuaciones estructurales
modelos de teoría de respuesta a los ítems
resolución de problemas sociales

Research Projects

Standardized goodness of fit assessment and power computations in structural equation models . 2017 - 2020 . Ref.1659936 . National Science Foundation . PI: Alberto Maydeu Olivares
Structural Equation Modeling and Item Response Theory . 2014 - 2017 . Ref.2014SGR1500 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: David Gallardo Pujol

Relevant publications

Maydeu-Olivares, A. (2017). Maximum likelihood estimation of structural equation models for continuous data: Standard errors and goodness of fit. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 24(3), pp. 383 - 394 . https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2016.1269606 . ISSN: 1070-5511
Maydeu-Olivares, A.; Fairchild, A.M.; Hall, A.G. (2017). Goodness of Fit in Item Factor Analysis: Effect of the Number of Response Alternatives. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal . https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2017.1289816 . ISSN: 1070-5511
Brown, A.; Maydeu-Olivares, A. (2017). Ordinal Factor Analysis of Graded-Preference Questionnaire Data. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 25(4), pp. 516 - 529 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1070-5511
Maydeu-Olivares, Alberto; Shi, Dexin; Rosseel, Yves (2019). Instrumental Variables Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS) vs. Maximum Likelihood Structural Equation Modeling of Causal Effects in Linear Regression Models. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 26(6), pp. 876 - 892 . https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2019.1607740 . ISSN: 1070-5511
Pavlov, G.; Maydeu-Olivares, A.; Fairchild, A. J. (2019). Effects of Applicant Faking on Forced-Choice and Likert Scores. Organizational Research Methods. Organizational Research Methods, 22(3), pp. 710 - 739 . https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428117753683 . ISSN: 1094-4281
Shi, Dexin; Maydeu-Olivares, Alberto (2019). The Effect of Estimation Methods on SEM Fit Indices. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 80(3), pp. 421 - 445 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0013164419885164 . ISSN: 0013-1644
Maydeu-Olivares, Alberto; Shi, Dexin; Fairchild, Amanda J. (2020). Estimating Causal Effects in Linear Regression Models With Observational Data: The Instrumental Variables Regression Model. Psychological Methods, 25(2), pp. 243 - 258 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1082-989X