Predicting future reconviction in offenders with intellectual disabilities: the predictive efficacy of VRAG, PCL-SV, and the HCR-20.

abstract：:Traumatic experiences are common among youths and can lead to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In order to identify traumatized children who need PTSD treatment, instruments that can accurately and efficiently evaluate pediatric PTSD are needed. One such measure is the Child PTSD Symptom Scale (CPSS), which has b...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Gillihan SJ,Aderka IM,Conklin PH,Capaldi S,Foa EB

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:Sixty adults in outpatient psychotherapy completed the NEO Personality Inventory--Revised (NEO PI-R, P. T. Costa & R. R. McCrae, 1992a). Half were instructed to fake good and half were given standard instructions. All completed the Interpersonal Adjective Scale--Revised, Big Five (J. S. Wiggins & P. D. Trapnell, 1997)...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Ballenger JF,Caldwell-Andrews A,Baer RA

更新日期：2001-06-01 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 aim of this study was to develop and validate manic and depressive scales carved from the full-length General Behavior Inventory (GBI). The brief version was designed to be applicable for youths and adults and to improve separation between mania and depression dimensions. Data came from 9 studies (2 youth clinical...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Youngstrom EA,Murray G,Johnson SL,Findling RL

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

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 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：:In examining the performance of screening scales, a distinction should be made between principal and additional diagnoses. The Psychiatric Diagnostic Screening Questionnaire (PDSQ) is a brief, psychometrically strong self-report scale designed to screen for the most common Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental D...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Zimmerman M,Sheeran T

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant motivations and incentives exist for young-adult students to seek a diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). With ADHD information readily accessible on the Internet, today's students are likely to be symptom educated prior to evaluation. This may result in false-positive diagnoses, pa...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Sollman MJ,Ranseen JD,Berry DT

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the reliability and validity of an expanded version of the Iowa Sleep Disturbances Inventory (ISDI; Koffel & Watson, 2010) in 2 samples (219 college students and 200 psychiatric patients). The expanded ISDI includes the scales Sleep Paralysis and Sleep Hallucinations. These scales, along with the N...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Koffel E

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For over 45 years, research investigating Machiavellianism has largely used the same unidimensional approach, even though empirical research demonstrates that Machiavellianism is comprised of 2 robust dimensions: views and tactics. This article elaborates on the theory and conceptualization behind the 2 dimensions. It...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Monaghan C,Bizumic B,Williams T,Sellbom M

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite increasing study of psychopathic traits in children and adolescents, evidence regarding the factor structure of these traits has been inconsistent across community, clinic-referred, and incarcerated samples. Empirical support exists for both 2-factor (Impulsivity-Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional) and 3...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Dong L,Wu H,Waldman ID

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：: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：: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 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：:To assess the psychometric properties and construct validity of the Italian translation of the Triarchic Psychopathy Measure (TriPM) in adolescents, we administered the inventory to 3 independent samples of Italian high school students (Ns = 609, 618, and 1,142). Cronbach's alpha values greater than .80 were observed ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Somma A,Borroni S,Drislane LE,Fossati A

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：:A brief interview to measure stress coping capabilities was developed and tested in 4 samples of African American and White adolescents in low-income neighborhoods of 2 large U.S. cities. The Social Competence Interview (SCI) is a 10-min social stressor that assesses physiological and social-emotional responses to a r...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Ewart CK,Jorgensen RS,Suchday S,Chen E,Matthews KA

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the Personality Assessment Screener (PAS; Morey, 1997) has garnered substantial research interest, the measure's temporal stability and sensitivity to change have remained largely uninvestigated. The present study employs a dynamic approach to investigating the convergent and discriminant validity of the PAS ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： McCredie MN,Truong TN,Edens JF,Morey LC

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study extends the validation of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) Response Bias Scale (RBS; R. O. Gervais, Y. S. Ben-Porath, D. B. Wygant, & P. Green, 2007) in separate forensic samples composed of ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Wygant DB,Sellbom M,Gervais RO,Ben-Porath YS,Stafford KP,Freeman DB,Heilbronner RL

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：:The Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS; Goodman, Price, Rasmussen, Mazure, Delgado, et al., 1989) is acknowledged as the gold standard measure of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptom severity. A number of areas where the Y-BOCS may benefit from revision have emerged in past psychometric studies of th...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Storch EA,Rasmussen SA,Price LH,Larson MJ,Murphy TK,Goodman WK

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：: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：:The development and promotion of social-emotional skills in childhood and adolescence contributes to subsequent well-being and positive life outcomes. However, the assessment of these skills is associated with conceptual and methodological challenges. This review discusses how social-emotional skill measurement in you...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Abrahams L,Pancorbo G,Primi R,Santos D,Kyllonen P,John OP,De Fruyt F

更新日期：2019-04-01 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

abstract：:This study investigated the cultural and linguistic adaptability of the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS), a new Rorschach administration, scoring, and interpretation system that minimizes psychometric weaknesses of the Comprehensive System (CS). This investigation addressed the validity of R-PAS measure...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Su WS,Viglione DJ,Green EE,Tam WC,Su JA,Chang YT

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：:The factor structure, measurement invariance, validity, reliability, and stability of scores on the Brief Situational Confidence Questionnaire (BSCQ) were evaluated for use with incarcerated youth. The BSCQ is an 8-item measure that assesses self-efficacy to resist alcohol use in tempting situations. The brevity of th...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Delaney DJ,Bernstein MH,Harlow LL,Farrow M,Martin RA,Stein LAR

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00