Establishing an Information Avoidance Scale.

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：:The Five-Factor Narcissism Inventory (FFNI; Glover, Miller, Lynam, Crego, & Widiger, 2012) is a 148-item self-report inventory of 15 traits designed to assess the basic elements of narcissism from the perspective of a 5-factor model. The FFNI assesses both vulnerable (i.e., cynicism/distrust, need for admiration, reac...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Sherman ED,Miller JD,Few LR,Campbell WK,Widiger TA,Crego C,Lynam DR

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current investigation, the authors examined the validity of the L-r and K-r scales on the recently developed Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF; Y. S. Ben-Porath & A. Tellegen, in press) in measuring underreported response bias. Three archival samples previously collected...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Sellbom M,Bagby RM

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Using ecological momentary assessment (EMA), we sought to determine whether differences in reporting would exist for smokers who self-monitored their smoking-related negative thoughts five times daily in comparison to a non-EMA control group. One hundred seventeen smokers were randomly assigned to two conditions. Eigh...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Magnan RE,Köblitz AR,McCaul KD,Dillard AJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:This study investigated the ability of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory--Third Edition (MCMI-III) to discriminate students malingering psychopathology (n = 106) from bona fide psychiatric inpatients (n = 202). Students were randomly assigned to a fake-bad or an honest-responding condition. Analyses investigate...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Schoenberg MR,Dorr D,Morgan CD

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：: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 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：:Most research on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) relies on clinician-administered interview and self-report measures to establish the presence/absence and severity of the disorder. Accurate diagnosis of PTSD is made challenging by the presence of symptoms shared with other psychopathologies and the subjective nat...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Bauer MR,Ruef AM,Pineles SL,Japuntich SJ,Macklin ML,Lasko NB,Orr SP

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：:The current study involved an investigation of the construct validity of the Emotion Word Fluency Test (EWFT) via conceptual replication and extension of Abeare, Freund, Kaploun, McAuley, and Dumitrescu (2017). Participants were 143 undergraduates (X age = 19.57, SD = 2.31)...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Camodeca A,Walcott K,Hosack A,Todd KQ

更新日期：2020-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The Multidimensional Acculturative Stress Inventory (MASI), a 36-item stress measure that was developed to assess acculturative stress among persons of Mexican origin living in the United States, was tested on a community sample of 174 adults (117 women, 57 men). Principal-components analyses yielded 4 stable and inte...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Rodriguez N,Myers HF,Mira CB,Flores T,Garcia-Hernandez L

更新日期：2002-12-01 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：: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：: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：:It has long been assumed that features associated with psychopathy, such as a lack of insight and deceitfulness, may compromise the utility of self-report measures, particularly for understanding the relations between these traits and important outcomes (e.g., offending). Unfortunately, little research has explicitly ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Jones S,Miller JD

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：: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 success of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in improving life functioning among chronic pain patients is followed by an interest in investigating mechanisms of action via which it unfolds and validating measures to assess its key constructs. The Psychological Inflexibility in Pain Scale (PIPS-II) assesses p...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Vasiliou VS,Michaelides MP,Kasinopoulos O,Karekla M

更新日期：2019-07-01 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：:This article reports on the psychometric properties of a newly constructed Hawaiian Culture Scale--Adolescent Version. A total of 2,272 Native Hawaiian and 1,170 non-Hawaiian adolescents were administered this 50-item inventory that measures the source of learning the Hawaiian way of life, how much Hawaiian beliefs ar...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Hishinuma ES,Andrade NN,Johnson RC,McArdle JJ,Miyamoto RH,Nahulu LB,Makini GK Jr,Yuen NY,Nishimura ST,McDermott JF Jr,Waldron JA,Luke KN,Yates A

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00