Introduction to the special section on incremental validity and utility in clinical assessment.

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 Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) is a 16-item self-report measure considered the gold-standard assessment instrument for worry. Two abbreviated versions of the PSWQ have also been developed. An 8-item measure (PSWQ-A) was designed to address poor model fit of the full version with older adult samples, and a 3...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Kertz SJ,Lee J,Björgvinsson T

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the 4 studies presented (N = 1,939), a converging set of analyses was conducted to evaluate the item adequacy, factor structure, reliability, and validity of the Disgust Scale (DS; J. Haidt, C. McCauley, & P. Rozin, 1994). The results suggest that 7 items (i.e., Items 2, 7, 8, 21, 23, 24, and 25) should be consider...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Olatunji BO,Williams NL,Tolin DF,Abramowitz JS,Sawchuk CN,Lohr JM,Elwood LS

更新日期：2007-09-01 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

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：:Meehl's taxometric method has been shown to differentiate between categorical and dimensional data, but there are many ways to implement taxometric procedures. When analyzing the ordered categorical data typically provided by assessment instruments, summing items to form input indicators has been a popular practice fo...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Walters GD,Ruscio J

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:Previous measures of childhood adversity have enabled the identification of powerful links with later-life wellbeing. The challenge for the next generation of childhood adversity assessment is to better characterize those links through comprehensive, fine-grained measurement strategies. The expanded, retrospective mea...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Morrill MI,Schulz MS,Nevarez MD,Preacher KJ,Waldinger RJ

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The violence risk appraisal guide (VRAG) was developed in the early 1990s, and approximately 60 replications around the world have shown its utility for the appraisal of violence risk among correctional and psychiatric populations. At the same time, authorities (e.g., Dawes, Faust, & Meehl, 1989) have argued that tool...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Rice ME,Harris GT,Lang C

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of the 3 Modifying Indices of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory III (MCMI-III) in the detection of fake-bad and fake-good responding. The sample consisted of 160 psychiatric outpatients. Paired t tests were performed to examine the effects of instructio...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Daubert SD,Metzler AE

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agreement among informants' ratings of children's and adults' internalizing and externalizing problems is moderate. Each informant contributes unique information about an individual's problems. Thus, it has been advocated to obtain ratings from multiple sources in child psychiatry, whereas adult psychiatry relies most...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： van der Ende J,Verhulst FC,Tiemeier H

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The collection of articles in this special section provides a much-needed examination of the state of psychological assessment in various Asian countries or societies. In particular, the contributors review and critique assessment of personality, depression and anxiety, children and adolescents, and neuropsychological...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Sue S,Chang J

更新日期：2003-09-01 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：:The present study applied item response theory to identify an efficient set of items of the Achenbach Externalizing scale from the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL; 33 items) and Teacher's Report Form (TRF; 35 items) that were sensitive to clinical-range scores. Mothers and teachers rated children's externalizing proble...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Petersen IT,Bates JE,Dodge KA,Lansford JE,Pettit GS

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior research supports the use of multiple types of evidence from multiple sources when assessing ADHD in adults. However, limited research has examined how to best integrate the resulting set of data into a well-supported diagnostic conclusion. Moreover, clients sometimes overreport symptoms or display low effort on...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Nelson JM,Lovett BJ

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychologists have standardized competency-to-stand-trial (CST) assessments through the development of specialized CST measures. However, their research has largely neglected the possibility that CST measures may be stymied by feigning mental disorders and concomitant impairment. The current study is the first systema...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Rogers R,Sewell KW,Grandjean NR,Vitacco MJ

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：: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：:The Republic of Colombia has a long-standing history of internal armed conflict, further complicated by the ideological assumptions underlying their war. In recent years, its government designed the Program for Reincorporation to Civilian Life (Programa para la Reincorporación a la Vida Civil, PRVC), aiming demobiliza...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Garcia-Barrera MA,Karr JE,Trujillo-Orrego N,Trujillo-Orrego S,Pineda DA

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:Although there is evidence that experts agree on the traits that characterize narcissism, this agreement may be due, in part, to the influence of the operationalizations based on the American Psychiatric Association's series of Diagnostic and Statistical Manuals of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association [A...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Miller JD,Lynam DR,Siedor L,Crowe M,Campbell WK

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been assumed that features associated with psychopathy, such as a lack of insight and deceitfulness, may compromise the utility of self-report measures, particularly for understanding the relations between these traits and important outcomes (e.g., offending). Unfortunately, little research has explicitly ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Jones S,Miller JD

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are serious gaps in knowledge with respect to the use of standardized assessment instruments such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Third Edition (WAIS-III; D. Wechsler, 1997) or the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2; J. N. Butcher, W. G. Dahlstrom, J. R. Graham, A. Tellegen, & B. Kaem...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Okazaki S,Sue S

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This introduction to the Special Section on Cognitive Science and Psychological Assessment begins with a brief overview of cognitive science and its interface with the clinical assessment of cognitive functioning. Concepts and themes permeating the articles in this section are then taken up. Included are cognitive-mod...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Neufeld RW

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of research supports the validity of 5-factor models for interpreting the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV). The majority of these studies have utilized the WAIS-IV normative or clinical sample, the latter of which differs in its diagnostic composition from the referrals seen at...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Staffaroni AM,Eng ME,Moses JA,Zeiner HK,Wickham RE

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the psychometric properties of the Cambridge Face Memory Test (CFMT; Duchaine & Nakayama, 2006). First, we assessed the dimensionality of the test with a bifactor exploratory factor analysis (EFA). This EFA analysis revealed a general factor and 3 specific factors clustered by targets of CFMT. However, th...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Cho SJ,Wilmer J,Herzmann G,McGugin RW,Fiset D,Van Gulick AE,Ryan KF,Gauthier I

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors argue for a significant shift in how clinical psychology researchers conduct construct validation and theory validation tests. They argue that sound theory and validation tests can best be conducted on measures of unidimensional or homogeneous constructs. Hierarchical organizations of such constructs are u...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Smith GT,McCarthy DM,Zapolski TC

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emotion invalidation is theoretically and empirically associated with mental and physical health problems. However, existing measures of invalidation focus on past (e.g., childhood) invalidation and/or do not specifically emphasize invalidation of emotion. In this article, the authors articulate a clarified operationa...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Zielinski MJ,Veilleux JC

更新日期：2018-11-01 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：:Although previous research suggests that connection to large, mostly anonymous groups is important for the fulfillment of psychological needs and a sense of psychological well-being, no measure exists to assess individual differences in this area. In 5 studies, we developed and provided support for the validity of the...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Gabriel S,Valenti J,Naragon-Gainey K,Young AF

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00