Psychometric evaluation of the restructured clinical scales of the MMPI-2.

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：:The aim of the study was to investigate the psychometric properties of a Short Form of the Mini-Mental State Examination (SMMSE) for the screening of dementia in older primary care patients. Data were obtained from a large longitudinal cohort study of initially nondemented individuals recruited via primary care chart ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Stein J,Luppa M,Kaduszkiewicz H,Eisele M,Weyerer S,Werle J,Bickel H,Mösch E,Wiese B,Prokein J,Pentzek M,Fuchs A,König HH,Brettschneider C,Heser K,Wagner M,Riedel-Heller SG,Scherer M,Maier W

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：: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：:The authors examined the structural validity of the parent informant version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) with a sample of 733 custodial grandparents. Three models of the SDQ's factor structure were evaluated with confirmatory factor analysis based on the item covariance matrix. Although indic...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Palmieri PA,Smith GC

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we examined whether nonattachment, a relatively new construct in the mindfulness literature, showed convergent, discriminant, and incremental validity in relation to the well-studied 5 facets of mindfulness. Mindfulness was defined as a multifaceted construct including observing, describing, acting with...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Sahdra B,Ciarrochi J,Parker P

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：:Using ecological momentary assessment (EMA), we sought to determine whether differences in reporting would exist for smokers who self-monitored their smoking-related negative thoughts five times daily in comparison to a non-EMA control group. One hundred seventeen smokers were randomly assigned to two conditions. Eigh...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Magnan RE,Köblitz AR,McCaul KD,Dillard AJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 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：: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：: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：:Information on the psychometric properties of the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS) in acquired brain injury (ABI) is currently unavailable. Therefore, we investigated the construct and discriminant, convergent, and divergent validity of the CISS in a Dutch adult sample with newly ABI (N = 139). Patient...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Brands IMH,Köhler S,Stapert SZ,Wade DT,van Heugten CM

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-national differences in the prevalence of psychopathy have been reported. This study examined whether rater effects could account for these differences. Psychopathy was assessed with the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R; R. D. Hare, 1991). Videotapes of 6 Scottish prisoners and 6 Canadian prisoners were rate...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Cooke DJ,Hart SD,Michie C

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article introduces the special section on experience sampling methods and ecological momentary assessment in clinical assessment. We review the conceptual basis for experience sampling methods (ESM; Csikszentmihalyi & Larson, 1987) and ecological momentary assessment (EMA; Stone & Shiffman, 1994). Next, we highli...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Trull TJ,Ebner-Priemer UW

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:The State-Trait Inventory for Cognitive and Somatic Anxiety (STICSA; M. J. Ree, C. MacLeod, D. French, & V. Locke, 2000) was designed to assess cognitive and somatic symptoms of anxiety as they pertain to one's mood in the moment (state) and in general (trait). This study extended the previous psychometric findings to...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Grös DF,Antony MM,Simms LJ,McCabe RE

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suicide is a major public health concern, with over 100 individuals dying by suicide per day in the United States alone. Therefore, suicide risk assessment is an essential aspect of mental health care. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF; Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2008-2011; Tel...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Gottfried E,Bodell L,Carbonell J,Joiner T

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：:Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) rating scales typically provide normative tables arranged according to child age, child gender, and type of informant, which facilitates addressing the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders developmental deviance requirement fo...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Anastopoulos AD,Beal KK,Reid RJ,Reid R,Power TJ,DuPaul GJ

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：: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 correspondence between the Hare Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV; S. D. Hart, D. N. Cox, & R. D. Hare, 1995) and the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R; R. D. Hare, 1991, 2003) was examined in forensic (N = 175) and correctional (N = 188) samples. Intermeasure correlations for Total scores (...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Guy LS,Douglas KS

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the several measures of optimism presently available in the literature, the Life Orientation Test (LOT; Scheier & Carver, 1985) has been the most widely used in empirical research. This article explores, confirms, and cross-validates the factor structure of the Chinese version of the LOT with ordinal data by using ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Li CH

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concurrent and predictive validity of the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV) were examined across gender and ethnicity using multiple outcome measures on a community-based sample of 130 adjudicated youths. The PCL:YV demonstrated concurrent validity with externalizing behavior problems but, it is import...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Schmidt F,McKinnon L,Chattha HK,Brownlee K

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：: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：:It is commonly accepted that gathering information via multiple assessment methods (e.g., interview and questionnaire, self- and informant report) is important for establishing construct validity. Although numerous articles report convergent and discriminant agreement correlations between self- and other ratings of pe...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Nuzum H,Ready RE,Clark LA

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of making judgments and decisions requires a method for combining data. To compare the accuracy of clinical and mechanical (formal, statistical) data-combination techniques, we performed a meta-analysis on studies of human health and behavior. On average, mechanical-prediction techniques were about 10% mor...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Grove WM,Zald DH,Lebow BS,Snitz BE,Nelson C

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral avoidance tasks (BATs) have been used for decades in the assessment of specific phobias, but they also involve a number of prohibitive difficulties. This study investigated a new imaginal/self-report instrument, the Behavioral Avoidance Task Using Imaginal Exposure (BATIE), and evaluated whether it was an e...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Davis TE,Reuther ET,May AC,Rudy BM,Munson MS,Jenkins WS,Whiting SE

更新日期：2013-12-01 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