Malingering as a categorical or dimensional construct: the latent structure of feigned psychopathology as measured by the SIRS and MMPI-2.

abstract：:The aim of this study was to develop a Spanish version of the Adolescent Stress Questionnaire and to examine its psychometric properties: factor structure, measurement invariance across samples, reliability, and concurrent validity. Participants consisted of 1,560 Spanish students between 12 and 18 years of age. The r...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Lima JF,Alarcón R,Escobar M,Fernández-Baena FJ,Muñoz ÁM,Blanca MJ

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：: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：: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：:Our purpose in the present study was to expand understanding of math beliefs in college students by developing 3 new psychometrically tested scales as guided by expectancy-value theory, self-efficacy theory, and health belief model. Additionally, we identified which math beliefs (and which theory) best explained varia...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Hendy HM,Schorschinsky N,Wade B

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the authors describe the development and subsequent validation of an attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) scale for young adults. The authors constructed 2 parallel forms of the scale to assess items that relate directly to DSM-IV criteria. Each form comprised Inattention, Hyperactivity, and ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Caterino LC,Gómez-Benito J,Balluerka N,Amador-Campos JA,Stock WA

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study sought to assess the performance of the Borderline Features (BOR) Scale of the adolescent version of the Personality Assessment Inventory (Morey, 2007b) in 2 high-risk samples: inpatient and justice-involved adolescents. This study is the first to evaluate the BOR scale in high-risk adolescent sample...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Venta A,Magyar M,Hossein S,Sharp C

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports an error in "Development and validation of the Family Law DOORS" by Jennifer E. McIntosh, Yvonne Wells and Jamie Lee (Psychological Assessment, 2016[Nov], Vol 28[11], 1516-1522). In the article, the "Adult not coping" scale in Table 1 is missing the item "Major worries about coping." (The following abstract of...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

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更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Triarchic model of psychopathy describes this complex condition in terms of distinct phenotypic components of boldness, meanness, and disinhibition. Brief self-report scales designed specifically to index these psychopathy facets have thus far demonstrated promising construct validity. The present study sought to ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Hall JR,Drislane LE,Patrick CJ,Morano M,Lilienfeld SO,Poythress NG

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:The present study examined the psychometric properties of scores from a direct measure of behavioral regulation, the Head-Toes-Knees-Shoulders task (HTKS) with 3- to 6-year-old children in the United States, Taiwan, South Korea, and China. Specifically, we investigated (a) the nature and variability of HTKS scores, in...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Wanless SB,McClelland MM,Acock AC,Ponitz CC,Son SH,Lan X,Morrison FJ,Chen JL,Chen FM,Lee K,Sung M,Li S

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schema modes are conceptualized as different parts of oneself, related to specific emotions, cognitions, and behaviors. They are a central concept in schema therapy for personality pathology and other chronic psychiatric disorders. Prior research confirms the factorial validity of the Schema Mode Inventory (SMI), an i...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Reiss N,Krampen D,Christoffersen P,Bach B

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：: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：:Goldberg's International Personality Item Pool (IPIP; Goldberg, 1999) provides researchers with public-domain, free-access personality measurement scales that are proxies of well-established published scales. One of the more commonly used IPIP sets employs 50 items to measure the 5 broad domains of the 5-factor model,...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Socha A,Cooper CA,McCord DM

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on adults indicates that perfectionistic self-presentation, the interpersonal expression of one's perfection, is associated with a variety of psychopathological outcomes independent of trait perfectionism and Big Five traits. The current article reports on the development and evidence for the validity of the ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Hewitt PL,Blasberg JS,Flett GL,Besser A,Sherry SB,Caelian C,Papsdorf M,Cassels TG,Birch S

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attributional theory and empirical evidence suggest that a tendency to make stable, global self-causal attributions for undesirable events is associated with negative outcomes. However, existing self-report measures of parental attributions do not account for the possibility that dysfunctional parent-causal attributio...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Snarr JD,Slep AM,Grande VP

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examination of the available literature regarding the development of the MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool-Criminal Adjudication (MacCAT-CA) reveals 2 theoretical factor structures on which the MacCAT-CA was based: one in which 3 lower-order constructs are proposed (understanding, reasoning, appreciation) and one i...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Zapf PA,Skeem JL,Golding SL

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:Recently, the American Psychiatric Association included Internet gaming disorder (IGD) in the appendix of the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). The main aim of the current study was to test the reliability and validity of 4 survey instruments to measure IGD on the basis ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Lemmens JS,Valkenburg PM,Gentile DA

更新日期：2015-06-01 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 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：: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：:This study assessed the longitudinal association between clinician and patient ratings of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms over the course of 2 different randomized clinical trials of veterans with chronic PTSD. One trial, the Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study 420 (CSP 420; N = 360) compare...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Monson CM,Gradus JL,Young-Xu Y,Schnurr PP,Price JL,Schumm JA

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：:In this article, the authors study the factorial structure of 2 versions (64 items and 32 items) of the Dutch translation of the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP; L. M. Horowitz, L. E. Alden, J. S. Wiggins, & A. L. Pincus, 2000) in both a clinical sample (n = 382) and a student sample (n = 287). First, the aut...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Vanheule S,Desmet M,Rosseel Y

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between context and emotion regulation is currently at the center of a burgeoning area of research. Commonly used emotion regulation questionnaires, however, are predominantly trait-based, and insensitive to situational choice of regulatory strategy. The current work describes the development and vali...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Katz BA,Lustig N,Assis Y,Yovel I

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00