The detection of feigned mental disorders on specific competency measures.

abstract：:Appearance comparison processes are implicated in the development of body-image disturbance and disordered eating. The Physical Appearance Comparison Scale-Revised (PACS-R) assesses the simple frequency of appearance comparisons; however, research has suggested that other aspects of appearance comparisons (e.g., compa...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Schaefer LM,Thompson JK

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain catastrophizing is a key factor in modern conceptualizations of pain. The development of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale for Children (PCS-C) has greatly contributed to the interest shown by pediatric pain specialists. The purpose of this work was to study the factor structure of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale and...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Solé E,Castarlenas E,Miró J

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The autonomy preference index scale (API) has been designed to measure patient preference for 2 dimensions of autonomy: Their desire to take part in making medical decisions (decision making, [DM]) and their desire to be informed about their illness and the treatment (information seeking; [IS]). The DM dimension is me...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Morandi S,Golay P,Vazquez-Montes M,Rugkåsa J,Molodynski A,Yeeles K,Burns T

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relations between self-concept and mental health are best understood from a multidimensional perspective. For responses by 903 adolescents (mean age = 12.6) to a new French translation of the Self Description Questionnaire II (SDQII), confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated a well-defined multidimensional factor str...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Marsh HW,Parada RH,Ayotte V

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efforts to measure religion have intensified, and many specific dimensions have been identified. However, although belief is a core dimension of all world religions, little attention has been given to assessment of religious beliefs. In particular, 1 essential set of religious beliefs, those concerning the reasons for...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Hale-Smith A,Park CL,Edmondson D

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Anxiety Sensitivity Index-3 (ASI-3; Taylor et al., 2007) is a self-report assessment of anxiety sensitivity, reflecting an individual's tendency to misinterpret the meaning of anxiety-relevant sensations. Despite this construct being related to a wide array of clinically significant smoking maintenance and relapse...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Farris SG,DiBello AM,Allan NP,Hogan J,Schmidt NB,Zvolensky MJ

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening for emotional and behavioral risk has become more prevalent with young children; however, not much is known about the latent structure for many of the brief instruments currently being used to assess children. Information concerning the latent structure of an instrument is necessary to support use of the sco...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： DiStefano C,Greer FW,Kamphaus RW

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports an error in "Assessment of Identity During Adolescence Using Daily Diary Methods: Measurement Invariance Across Time and Sex" by Andrik I. Becht, Susan J. T. Branje, Wilma A. M. Vollebergh, Dominique F. Maciejewski, Pol A. C. van Lier, Hans M. Koot, Jaap J. A. Denissen and Wim H. J. Meeus (Psychological Assess...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

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更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study evaluated the utility of parent- and child-reported social fears for reaching a diagnosis of social phobia in youth. The diagnostic utility of (a) the number of fears and (b) specific feared social situations was examined. The sample included 140 youth and their parents: youth diagnosed with social p...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Puliafico AC,Comer JS,Kendall PC

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Readiness and Motivation Interview (RMI) is a semistructured interview measure of readiness and motivation to change that can be used for all eating disorder diagnoses. The RMI has demonstrated excellent psychometric properties and has both clinical and predictive utility in adult samples. This study examined the ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Geller J,Brown KE,Zaitsoff SL,Menna R,Bates ME,Dunn EC

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study used data from 3 sites to examine the invariance and psychometric characteristics of the Brief Symptom Inventory-18 across Black, Hispanic, and White mothers of 5th graders (N = 4,711; M = 38.07 years of age, SD = 7.16). Internal consistencies were satisfactory for all subscale scores of the instrument rega...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Wiesner M,Chen V,Windle M,Elliott MN,Grunbaum JA,Kanouse DE,Schuster MA

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this study was to examine whether data from 3 different measures of communication (i.e., self-report, quasi-observational, and observational) can predict relationship adjustment and stability 1 year later when used conjointly in a sample of 62 young couples. The 3 measures of communication were the Communi...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Guay S,Boisvert JM,Freeston MH

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5) is a 220-item self-report instrument that assesses the alternative model of personality psychopathology in Section III (Emerging Measures and Models) of DSM-5. Despite its relatively recent introduction, the PID-5 has generated an impressive accumulation of studies examining...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Dhillon S,Bagby RM,Kushner SC,Burchett D

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the development and psychometric characteristics of a new version of the Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ; Seligman, Abramson, Semmell, & Von Baeyer, 1979)--a version called the Attributional Style Questionnaire for Adolescents (ASQ-A)--using 3 samples (Ns = 547, 438, and 240) of Spanish secondary sc...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Rodríguez-Naranjo C,Caño A

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spite is an understudied construct that has been virtually ignored within the personality, social, and clinical psychology literatures. This study introduces a self-report Spitefulness Scale to assess individual differences in spitefulness. The scale was initially tested on a large sample of 946 college students and c...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Marcus DK,Zeigler-Hill V,Mercer SH,Norris AL

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Learning effects were assessed for the block design (BD) task, on the basis of variation in 2 stimulus parameters: perceptual cohesiveness (PC) and set size uncertainty (U). Thirty-one nonclinical undergraduate students (19 female) each completed 3 designs for each of 4 varied sets of the stimulus parameters (high-PC/...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Miller JC,Ruthig JC,Bradley AR,Wise RA,Pedersen HA,Ellison JM

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current evidence-based assessment methods, such as structured interviews and lengthy assessment batteries, often require hours to administer, score, and interpret and thus are infrequently used in real-world practice. As evidence-based assessment tools are developed for implementation in real-world youth mental health...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Ebesutani C,Bernstein A,Chorpita BF,Weisz JR

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Family history of mental illness provides important information when evaluating pediatric bipolar disorder (PBD). However, such information is often challenging to gather within clinical settings. This study investigates the feasibility and utility of gathering family history information using an inexpensive method pr...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Algorta GP,Youngstrom EA,Phelps J,Jenkins MM,Youngstrom JK,Findling RL

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine whether gender moderates the interaction between Factor 1 (F1: core interpersonal-affective traits of psychopathy) and Factor 2 (F2: social deviance and disinhibition) of the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV; Forth, Kosson, & Hare, 2003) in predicting future offen...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Walters GD

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interest in heart rate variability (HRV) metrics as markers of physiological and psychological health continues to grow beyond those with psychophysiological expertise, increasing the importance of developing suitable tools for researchers new to the field. Allen, Chambers, and Towers (2007) developed QRSTool and CMet...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Hibbert AS,Weinberg A,Klonsky ED

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social anhedonia is an important construct that describes individual differences in preferences for interacting in and experiencing pleasure from social interactions and has been a central construct in the schizotypy literature. The description of social anhedonia is very similar to that of social closeness from the p...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Olino TM,Horton LE,Versella MV

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 6 nonoverlapping primary scales of the Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms (SIRS) were subjected to taxometric analysis in a group of 1,211 criminal and civil examinees in order to investigate the latent structure of feigned psychopathology. Both taxometric procedures used in this study, mean above minus bel...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Walters GD,Rogers R,Berry DT,Miller HA,Duncan SA,McCusker PJ,Payne JW,Granacher RP

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Supplementary methods for the analysis of the Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System (Delis, Kaplan, & Kramer, 2001) are made available, including (a) quantifying the number of abnormally low achievement scores exhibited by an individual and accompanying this with an estimate of the percentage of the normative populat...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Crawford JR,Garthwaite PH,Sutherland D,Borland N

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alexithymia is a multifaceted personality construct that reflects deficits in affect awareness (difficulty identifying feelings, DIF; difficulty describing feelings, DDF) and operative thinking (externally oriented thinking, EOT; restricted imaginal processes, IMP), and is associated with several common psychiatric di...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Watters CA,Taylor GJ,Bagby RM

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anomalous self-experiences (ASEs) are among the first symptoms to appear in the prodrome, predict the development of psychosis over and above clinical symptoms, and are common in people with schizophrenia. Although there are well-validated phenomenological interviews for assessing ASEs, there are no self-report measur...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Cicero DC,Neis AM,Klaunig MJ,Trask CL

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20; Bagby, Parker, & Taylor, 1994; Bagby, Taylor, & Parker, 1994) is the most widely used self-report measure of the alexithymia construct. The TAS-20 comprises 3 factors that assess difficulty identifying feelings, difficulty describing feelings, and externally oriented thin...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Parker JD,Eastabrook JM,Keefer KV,Wood LM

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most research on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) relies on clinician-administered interview and self-report measures to establish the presence/absence and severity of the disorder. Accurate diagnosis of PTSD is made challenging by the presence of symptoms shared with other psychopathologies and the subjective nat...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Bauer MR,Ruef AM,Pineles SL,Japuntich SJ,Macklin ML,Lasko NB,Orr SP

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite growing affective-memory research, only 2 potential clinical measures have been published, each with limitations. We describe the development and piloting of an integrated memory measure for neutral and affectively valenced words, the Cognitive-Affective Verbal Learning Test (C-AVLT). The C-AVLT and mood self-...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Considine CM,Keatley E,Abeare CA

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a sample of individuals undergoing medico-legal evaluations (690 men, 519 women), the present study extended past research on potential gender biases for scores of the Symptom Validity (FBS) scale of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 by examining score- and item-level differences between men and ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Lee TT,Graham JR,Sellbom M,Gervais RO

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the ability of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory--Third Edition (MCMI-III) to discriminate students malingering psychopathology (n = 106) from bona fide psychiatric inpatients (n = 202). Students were randomly assigned to a fake-bad or an honest-responding condition. Analyses investigate...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Schoenberg MR,Dorr D,Morgan CD

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00