A workflow for automating scale scoring in R
This post contains a workflow that vastly speeds up the process of scale scoring and computing psychometrics such as Cronbach's alpha.
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About Me
Hi! I am a postdoc in the Department for Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. My research interests include career development and career counseling, with a focus on applying theories of motivation and self-regulation. Besides this, I develop packages for the statistical software R.
Education
PhD in Organizational Psychology
2018-2023
University of Bern
MSc in Psychology
2016-2018
Philipps-University Marburg
BSc in Psychology
2013-2016
Philipps-University Marburg
Interests
Psychology of Work and Careers
Future of Work and Digitalization
R and Data Science
Selected Publications
(2025).
Career Self-Management Competencies: Conceptualization and Measurement Based on a Career Self-Regulation Framework.
Journal of Career Assessment.
(2025).
Career self-management as resource management through action regulation: Theoretical concepts and practice implications for promoting career management skills.
In L. Sovet, A. Chant, J. Katsarov, & J. Pouyaud (Eds.), Building Career Management Skills (pp. 52-69). Network for Innovation in Career Guidance and Counselling in Europe (NICE).
(2024).
The multidimensional nature of career self-management behaviours and their relation to facets of employability.
Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 97(1), 342-375.
(2019).
Career Self-Management as a Key Factor for Career Wellbeing.
Theory, Research and Dynamics of Career Wellbeing: Becoming Fit for the Future.
Recent Posts
Fornell-Larcker Criterion with R using lavaan
Update 2025 The Fornell-Larcker criterion has been criticized in an influential paper on discriminant validity (Rönkko & Cho, 2022). The authors have kindly created a function to …
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Beautiful Tables for Exploratory Factor Analysis in R
The psych package for R provides great utilities for exploratory factor analysis (EFA). However, the way psych displays the results does not take advantage of visual cues to make …
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How to compute multi-level reliability indices in R and Mplus
Update 2022 Since the time since I wrote this blog post, a package has been developed that calculates the multi-level reliability coefficient omega within R. See the function …
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Contact
Feel free to reach out to me at the Department for Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Bern.
Email: francisco.wilhelm@unibe.ch
Office: University of Bern