On the value of homogeneous constructs for construct validation, theory testing, and the description of psychopathology.

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：:Reports an error in "Assessment of Identity During Adolescence Using Daily Diary Methods: Measurement Invariance Across Time and Sex" by Andrik I. Becht, Susan J. T. Branje, Wilma A. M. Vollebergh, Dominique F. Maciejewski, Pol A. C. van Lier, Hans M. Koot, Jaap J. A. Denissen and Wim H. J. Meeus (Psychological Assess...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

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更新日期：2016-06-01 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：: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：:Individuals acquitted as not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI) are usually committed to psychiatric hospitals for treatment until they are considered suitable for conditional release back to the community. The clinical evaluations that inform conditional release decisions have rarely been studied but provide an idea...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Gowensmith WN,Murrie DC,Boccaccini MT,McNichols BJ

更新日期：2017-06-01 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

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：: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：: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：:Accurate predictions of future reconviction, including those for violent crimes, have been shown to be greatly aided by the use of formal risk assessment instruments. However, it is unclear as to whether these instruments would also be predictive in a sample of offenders with intellectual disabilities. In this study, ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Gray NS,Fitzgerald S,Taylor J,Macculloch MJ,Snowden RJ

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Anomalous self-experiences (ASEs) are among the first symptoms to appear in the prodrome, predict the development of psychosis over and above clinical symptoms, and are common in people with schizophrenia. Although there are well-validated phenomenological interviews for assessing ASEs, there are no self-report measur...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Cicero DC,Neis AM,Klaunig MJ,Trask CL

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given substantial interest in the traits conceived of as part of the "Dark Triad"--psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism--assessment of these traits is of great importance. The Dirty Dozen (DD; Jonason & Webster, 2010) is a brief measure of the Dark Triad constructs that uses 4 items to assess each of these co...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Miller JD,Few LR,Seibert LA,Watts A,Zeichner A,Lynam DR

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the United States offers some of the most advanced psychological services in the world, not everyone in the country shares these services equally, resulting in health disparities. Health disparities persist when assessments do not appropriately measure different populations' mental health problems. To address...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Chao RC,Green K,Dugar K,Paiko L,Zhao J,Li PF

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is a set of longitudinal methods that researchers can use to understand complex processes (e.g., health, behavior, emotion) in "high resolution." Although technology has made EMA data collection easier, concerns remain about the consistency and quality of data collected from parti...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Carr DJ,Adia AC,Wray TB,Celio MA,Pérez AE,Monti PM

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social anhedonia is an important construct that describes individual differences in preferences for interacting in and experiencing pleasure from social interactions and has been a central construct in the schizotypy literature. The description of social anhedonia is very similar to that of social closeness from the p...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Olino TM,Horton LE,Versella MV

更新日期：2016-11-01 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：: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：:Current evidence-based assessment methods, such as structured interviews and lengthy assessment batteries, often require hours to administer, score, and interpret and thus are infrequently used in real-world practice. As evidence-based assessment tools are developed for implementation in real-world youth mental health...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Ebesutani C,Bernstein A,Chorpita BF,Weisz JR

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：:Reduced specificity of autobiographical memories is a hallmark of depressive cognition. Autobiographical memory (AM) specificity is typically measured by the Autobiographical Memory Test (AMT), in which respondents are asked to describe personal memories in response to emotional cue words. Due to this free descriptive...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Takano K,Gutenbrunner C,Martens K,Salmon K,Raes F

更新日期：2018-02-01 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 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 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：:Social functioning is an essential but poorly understood component of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for people with Huntington disease (HD). We report on the psychometric properties of 2 Neuro-QoL patient-reported outcome measures to assess social functioning in HD. Persons with prodromal (n = 198) or manifes...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Carlozzi NE,Hahn EA,Goodnight SM,Kratz AL,Paulsen JS,Stout JC,Frank S,Miner JA,Cella D,Gershon RC,Schilling SG,Ready RE

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Confirmatory factor analysis was used to model a multitrait-multisource design to evaluate the construct validity of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) rating scales. The 2 trait factors were the ADHD inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity dimensions. The 2 source factors were parents and teachers. In ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Gomez R,Burns GL,Walsh JA,de Moura MA

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening for depression is an integral part of psychological evaluations conducted prior to bariatric surgery. The Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) is the most commonly used measure of depression in these treatment evaluations. The reliability and validity of the BDI-II has not yet been evaluated within bariatri...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Hall BJ,Hood MM,Nackers LM,Azarbad L,Ivan I,Corsica J

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00