Structural invariance of General Behavior Inventory (GBI) scores in Black and White young adults.

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：: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：:This study tested alternative factor models of the General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12), based on previous research findings, with a large sample using confirmatory factor analysis. An alternative models framework was used to test 6 factor analytic models. A 3-factor model was the best explanation of the sample da...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Shevlin M,Adamson G

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

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 examined the factor structure 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 that has shown promise as a measure of patients' achievements of treatment objectives i...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

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

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：:[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 30(3) of Psychological Assessment (see record 2017-30273-001). In the article, the Table 1 item content was incorrectly ordered. The table, as well as text referencing Table 1 in the Results and Discussion, have been corrected in all versions of this ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Becker SP,Burns GL,Garner AA,Jarrett MA,Luebbe AM,Epstein JN,Willcutt EG

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current project outlines the development of the Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Symptom Infrequency Scale (ASIS), a stand-alone measure designed to identify individuals feigning or exaggerating symptoms to receive a diagnosis of ADHD. Over the course of 3 studies, valid data was collected from 402 ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Courrégé SC,Skeel RL,Feder AH,Boress KS

更新日期：2019-07-01 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：: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：:Several studies have concluded that scores from Hare's (2003) Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) predict reoffense among sexual offenders, but most of those studies examined the predictive validity of scores from trained research staff, not clinicians in the field scoring the measure as part of actual forensic asse...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Murrie DC,Boccaccini MT,Caperton J,Rufino K

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on emotion regulation (ER) strategies has often relied on trait self-report measures, where individuals retrospectively report their tendency to engage in a specific strategy. Although this method is convenient and useful in many clinical and research settings, it is subject to a number of response and memory...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： McMahon TP,Naragon-Gainey K

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important component of neuropsychological testing is assessment of premorbid intelligence to estimate a patient's ability independent of neurological impairment. A common test of premorbid IQ-namely, the Reading section of the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT)-has been shown to have high measurement error in the h...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Yudien MA,Moore TM,Port AM,Ruparel K,Gur RE,Gur RC

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relations between self-concept and mental health are best understood from a multidimensional perspective. For responses by 903 adolescents (mean age = 12.6) to a new French translation of the Self Description Questionnaire II (SDQII), confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated a well-defined multidimensional factor str...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Marsh HW,Parada RH,Ayotte V

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 30%-40% of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) meet criteria for a comorbid anxiety disorder in clinical samples (Tannock, 2009), but little is known about treatment response for this subgroup. The current study evaluated processes of change in a psychosocial treatment designed ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Jarrett MA

更新日期：2013-06-01 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：:This special section focuses on the incremental validity and utility of clinical assessment data. The lack of replicated incremental validity research limits the ability of psychologists to establish their assessment practices on a solid empirical footing. The articles in this section deal with conceptual, methodologi...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Hunsley J

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：: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：: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：:Test-taking behaviors (i.e., task focus, maintenance of attention, and cooperation) affect children's cognitive test performance, and, thus, it is critical to take test-taking behavior into account when drawing conclusions and making recommendations. Prior studies have evaluated test-taking behaviors at the end of the...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Heinonen J,Aro T,Ahonen T,Poikkeus AM

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：: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

abstract：:An important reason to choose an intervention to treat psychological problems of clients is the expectation that the intervention will be effective in alleviating the problems. The authors investigated whether clinicians base their ratings of the effectiveness of interventions on models that they construct representin...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： de Kwaadsteniet L,Hagmayer Y,Krol NP,Witteman CL

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：:The Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale 10 (CD-RISC 10; Campbell-Sills & Stein, 2007) is a self-report measure of resilience that has been found to provide reliable and valid scores among U.S. and international samples, although its psychometric properties have not been validated among African Americans. This study used ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Coates EE,Phares V,Dedrick RF

更新日期：2013-12-01 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 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：: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：: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