Measuring beliefs about suffering: development of the views of suffering scale.

abstract：:Mind wandering is a commonly experienced phenomenon. Although self-report measures are available to assess these attentional lapses, examination of their correspondence with the reported frequency of these episodes in daily life is warranted. Using ecological momentary assessments (EMAs), the present study aimed to va...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Ostojic-Aitkens D,Brooker B,Miller CJ

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social anxiety disorder and social anxiety are highly prevalent psychological conditions in youth. Because of the known risks associated with the spectrum of social anxiety in youth, early detection with valid and reliable assessment measures is imperative. Self-report measures have become the most widely used method ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Johnson HS,Inderbitzen-Nolan HM,Anderson ER

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：: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 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 recently developed 40-item short-form of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised (PPI-R; Lilienfeld & Widows, 2005) has shown considerable promise as an alternative to the long-form of the instrument (Eisenbarth, Lilienfeld, & Yarkoni, 2015). Beyond the initial construction of the short-form, however, Eisenba...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Ruchensky JR,Edens JF,Donnellan MB,Witt EA

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing discrepancy between one's values and behaviors is theoretically important in motivating change; however, existing studies lack a validated measure of value-behavior discrepancy for alcohol misuse. The current studies aimed to modify Wilson & DuFrene (2008) Valued Living Questionnaire (VLQ) to assess consist...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Miller MB,Meier E,Lombardi N,Leavens EL,Grant DM,Leffingwell TR

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：:The Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II) is a self-report measure designed to assess experiential avoidance as conceptualized in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). The current study is the first to evaluate the psychometric properties of the AAQ-II in a large sample of adults (N = 376) with mild to mo...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Fledderus M,Oude Voshaar MA,Ten Klooster PM,Bohlmeijer ET

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:In the United States, Black and White individuals show discrepant rates of diagnosis of bipolar disorder versus schizophrenia and antisocial personality disorder, as well as disparate access to and utilization of treatment for these disorders (e.g., Alegria, Chatterji, et al., 2008; Chrishon, Anderson, Arora, & Bailey...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Pendergast LL,Youngstrom EA,Brown C,Jensen D,Abramson LY,Alloy LB

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is used as a distinct diagnosis in clinical practice, its symptoms were characterized as a dimensional structure in several taxometric analyses. However, a categorical latent structure of PTSD could be superimposed by using indistinct PTSD symptoms that can appear within t...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Kliem S,Kröger C,Foran HM,Mößle T,Glaesmer H,Zenger M,Brähler E

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article provides a clinically oriented overview of analogue observational methods used in the assessment of problematic social functioning, specifically skill deficits and social anxiety. This article emphasizes role-play assessment methods, the predominant method used in clinical settings. An examination of the ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Norton PJ,Hope DA

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are several recommendations about the routine to undertake when back translating self-report instruments in cross-cultural research. However, text mining methods have been generally ignored within this field. This work describes a text mining innovative application useful to adapt a personality questionnaire to ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Blanch A,Aluja A

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：:An item response theory (IRT) approach to test linking based on summed scores is presented and demonstrated by calibrating a modified 23-item version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) to the standard 20-item CES-D. Data are from the Depression Patient Outcomes Research Team, II, which us...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Orlando M,Sherbourne CD,Thissen D

更新日期：2000-09-01 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：: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：: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：: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

abstract：:This study examined interrater reliability and sensitivity to change of the Achievement of Therapeutic Objectives Scale (ATOS; McCullough, Larsen, et al., 2003) in short-term dynamic psychotherapy (STDP) and cognitive therapy (CT). The ATOS is a process scale originally developed to assess patients' achievements of tr...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Valen J,Ryum T,Svartberg M,Stiles TC,McCullough L

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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