Introduction to the Special Section on Cognitive Science and Psychological Assessment.

abstract：:Developing discrepancy between one's values and behaviors is theoretically important in motivating change; however, existing studies lack a validated measure of value-behavior discrepancy for alcohol misuse. The current studies aimed to modify Wilson & DuFrene (2008) Valued Living Questionnaire (VLQ) to assess consist...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Miller MB,Meier E,Lombardi N,Leavens EL,Grant DM,Leffingwell TR

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined the validity of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) typology for pregnant drug-dependent women. A 3-cluster solution based on 7 MMPI-2 clinical scales emerged as the best model and was replicated across split-half samples and different primary substance-use diagnoses and t...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Tran GQ,Bux DA,Haug NA,Stitzer ML,Svikis DS

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few Spanish language tools are available for assessing important social-emotional learning (SEL) skills. The present study presents evidence of the psychometric properties of a Spanish-language version of SELweb (SELweb-S), a web-based system for assessing children's ability to recognize others' emotions and perspecti...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Russo JM,McKown C,Russo-Ponsaran NM,Allen A

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How people interpret a mental disorder symptom has been shown to depend on the contextual life factors surrounding its presentation. Specifically, people are more likely to judge a symptom as clinically relevant if that symptom presents in a high-risk environment (e.g., child associates with deviant peers) relative to...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Marsh JK,Burke CT,De Los Reyes A

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mind wandering is a commonly experienced phenomenon. Although self-report measures are available to assess these attentional lapses, examination of their correspondence with the reported frequency of these episodes in daily life is warranted. Using ecological momentary assessments (EMAs), the present study aimed to va...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Ostojic-Aitkens D,Brooker B,Miller CJ

更新日期：2019-06-01 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 current study aimed to examine the relation between experiential avoidance and anxiety disorders, as well as the usefulness of the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth (AFQ-Y; Greco, Lambert, & Baer, 2008) in detecting anxiety disorder in a sample of adolescent inpatients. First, the relation between exper...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Venta A,Sharp C,Hart J

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important reason to choose an intervention to treat psychological problems of clients is the expectation that the intervention will be effective in alleviating the problems. The authors investigated whether clinicians base their ratings of the effectiveness of interventions on models that they construct representin...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： de Kwaadsteniet L,Hagmayer Y,Krol NP,Witteman CL

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：:J. Skeem and D. J. Cooke (2010) asserted that Hare and Neumann consider criminality to be an essential component of the psychopathy construct. The assertion, presented in the guise of a debate on the nature of psychopathy, is neither accurate nor consistent with the clinical and empirical literature on psychopathy to ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Hare RD,Neumann CS

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the psychometric properties of the Spanish Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II; A. T. Beck, R. A. Steer, & G. K. Brown, 1996) in a sample of individuals undergoing hemodialysis. They performed a confirmatory factor analysis of a previously reported 2-factor solution for the English BDI-II derived...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Penley JA,Wiebe JS,Nwosu A

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropsychological test batteries are designed to assess cognition in detail by measuring cognitive performance in multiple domains. This study examines the factor structure of tests from the ARIC-NCS battery overall and across informative subgroups defined by demographic and vascular risk factors in a population of o...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Rawlings AM,Bandeen-Roche K,Gross AL,Gottesman RF,Coker LH,Penman AD,Sharrett AR,Mosley TH

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined interrater reliability and sensitivity to change of the Achievement of Therapeutic Objectives Scale (ATOS; McCullough, Larsen, et al., 2003) in short-term dynamic psychotherapy (STDP) and cognitive therapy (CT). The ATOS is a process scale originally developed to assess patients' achievements of tr...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Valen J,Ryum T,Svartberg M,Stiles TC,McCullough L

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Healthy Zambian adults (N = 324) were evaluated to determine to what degree a Western neuropsychological (NP) test battery, with African American norms adjusted for age, gender, and education could be used in healthy Zambians, including 157 men (48.46%) and 167 women (51.54%) with an average age of 38.48 (SD = 12.80) ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Hestad KA,Menon JA,Serpell R,Kalungwana L,Mwaba SO,Kabuba N,Franklin DR,Umlauf A,Letendre S,Heaton RK

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parents and adolescents often provide discrepant reports of adolescent and family behavior. Recent work indicates that scores from indirect measures of discrepancies between parent and adolescent reports, namely, statistical interactions between reports, longitudinally predict adolescent psychopathology. However, no p...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： De Los Reyes A,Salas S,Menzer MM,Daruwala SE

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been a recent push to extend the construct of psychopathy into adolescence, primarily as a result of the impressive reliability, validity, and utility of this construct in samples of adults. The value of this work rests, however, on creating an equally reliable and valid assessment tool for adolescents. One ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Jones S,Cauffman E,Miller JD,Mulvey E

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined possible differences in the factor structure of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on the basis of whether frequency or intensity symptom response formats were used to assess PTSD. Participants included 669 veterans recruited from an epidemiological study of four Veterans Affairs Medical Centers' primary...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Elhai JD,Palmieri PA,Biehn TL,Frueh BC,Magruder KM

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four studies evaluate the new Self Description Questionnaire II short-form (SDQII-S) that measures 11 dimensions of adolescent self-concept based on responses to 51 of the original 102 SDQII items and demonstrate new statistical strategies to operationalize guidelines for short-form evaluation proposed by G. T. Smith,...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Marsh HW,Ellis LA,Parada RH,Richards G,Heubeck BG

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We undertook a secondary data analysis to study issues relevant to co-occurring mental health and substance disorder in a combined sample of offenders (N = 3,197). Using the Personality Assessment Inventory, we compared the frequency of depressive, traumatic stress, and personality disorder symptom elevations across o...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Ruiz MA,Douglas KS,Edens JF,Nikolova NL,Lilienfeld SO

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study proposes a flexible approach to studying informant discrepancies: Latent Difference Scores modeling (LDS). The LDS approach is demonstrated using an empirical example in which associations between mother-adolescent and father-adolescent discrepant parenting perceptions, and concurrent and later adole...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： de Haan A,Prinzie P,Sentse M,Jongerling J

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Intolerance to Uncertainty Scale (IUS) was developed to measure a dispositional tendency to react negatively to uncertain events, regardless of the occurrence probability of those events. Recent evidence suggests a 2-factor structure underlying the IUS; 1 factor measuring a prospective aspect (i.e., desire for pre...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Hong RY,Lee SS

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2 studies, we examined the use of validity screening items in adolescent survey data. In each study, adolescent respondents were asked whether they were telling the truth and paying attention in answering survey questions. In Study 1 (N = 7,801), the prevalence rates of student risk behaviors were significantly low...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Cornell D,Klein J,Konold T,Huang F

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current project outlines the development of the Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Symptom Infrequency Scale (ASIS), a stand-alone measure designed to identify individuals feigning or exaggerating symptoms to receive a diagnosis of ADHD. Over the course of 3 studies, valid data was collected from 402 ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Courrégé SC,Skeel RL,Feder AH,Boress KS

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Multidimensional Acculturative Stress Inventory (MASI), a 36-item stress measure that was developed to assess acculturative stress among persons of Mexican origin living in the United States, was tested on a community sample of 174 adults (117 women, 57 men). Principal-components analyses yielded 4 stable and inte...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Rodriguez N,Myers HF,Mira CB,Flores T,Garcia-Hernandez L

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are a number of prominent trait-based models and assessments of psychopathy that posit the existence of a varying number of central traits, which differ in their relation to one another and the degree to which they manifest similar empirical networks. In the current study (N = 347), we examined Lilienfeld's popu...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Miller JD,Maples-Keller JL,Lynam DR

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonhomeostatic eating is a complex (presumably) multidimensional construct associated with negative health outcomes. However, little research has examined the latent structure of nonhomeostatic eating processes, interrelationships among nonhomeostatic eating constructs, and differential associations between nonhomeost...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Racine SE,Hagan KE,Schell SE

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous studies, researchers have examined the optimal number of response options for psychological questionnaires. Several have reported increased scale score reliabilities, but few have documented improved external validities. In the present investigation, we followed-up on Cox (2011) and Cox et al.'s (2012) ext...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Finn JA,Ben-Porath YS,Tellegen A

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：:Tools for assessing an individual's readiness to change nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) are limited. The Transtheoretical model of change (TTM) has been useful in predicting behavior change and guiding interventions for a variety of health behaviors including eating disorders, substance use disorders, and exercise. The...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Kruzan KP,Whitlock J,Hasking P

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS; Kessler et al., 2005) is one of the most extensively used scales to detect attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults. The aim of this work is to analyze the psychometric properties of the 18 ASRS items in people with substance use disorders (SUDs). Furthermore, w...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Sanchez-Garcia M,Fernandez-Calderon F,Carmona-Marquez J,Chico-Garcia M,Velez-Moreno A,Perez-Gomez L

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00