Are risk assessments racially biased?: Field study of the SAVRY and YLS/CMI in probation.

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 goal of the present study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the English and Spanish versions of the Parenting Stress Index-Short Form (PSI-SF) with mothers of 12- to 15-month-old infants with elevated levels of behavior problems and from predominately Hispanic, low-income backgrounds. Mothers of 58 in...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Barroso NE,Hungerford GM,Garcia D,Graziano PA,Bagner DM

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：:Conceptual overlap and heterogeneity have long been noted as weaknesses of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory's clinical scales. Restructured clinical (RC) scales recently were developed to address these concerns (A. Tellegen et al., 2003). The authors evaluated the psychometric properties of the RC scale...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Simms LJ,Casillas A,Clark LA,Watson D,Doebbeling BN

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sample of 917 children, aged 7 to 17 years, their parents, and their teachers each completed the appropriate version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), and 120 from each group did so again 2 weeks later. The results indicate that the SDQ demonstrates sound interinformant and test-retest reliabili...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Mellor D

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：:Computerized adaptive testing in personality assessment can improve efficiency by significantly reducing the number of items administered to answer an assessment question. Two approaches have been explored for adaptive testing in computerized personality assessment: item response theory and the countdown method. In th...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Forbey JD,Ben-Porath YS

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:This article introduces the special section on experience sampling methods and ecological momentary assessment in clinical assessment. We review the conceptual basis for experience sampling methods (ESM; Csikszentmihalyi & Larson, 1987) and ecological momentary assessment (EMA; Stone & Shiffman, 1994). Next, we highli...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Trull TJ,Ebner-Priemer UW

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Appearance comparison processes are implicated in the development of body-image disturbance and disordered eating. The Physical Appearance Comparison Scale-Revised (PACS-R) assesses the simple frequency of appearance comparisons; however, research has suggested that other aspects of appearance comparisons (e.g., compa...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Schaefer LM,Thompson JK

更新日期：2018-10-01 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 3-factor model of narcissism is generally agreed upon within the literature. However, only a limited number of studies have investigated its structure. We investigated the internal structure of the measure using exploratory factor analysis on the Polish adaptation of the Five Factor Narcissism Inventory (FFNI). Th...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Rogoza R,Cieciuch J,Strus W,Kłosowski M

更新日期：2020-10-22 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：:There has been a recent push to extend the construct of psychopathy into adolescence, primarily as a result of the impressive reliability, validity, and utility of this construct in samples of adults. The value of this work rests, however, on creating an equally reliable and valid assessment tool for adolescents. One ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Jones S,Cauffman E,Miller JD,Mulvey E

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：:Despite increasing study of psychopathic traits in children and adolescents, evidence regarding the factor structure of these traits has been inconsistent across community, clinic-referred, and incarcerated samples. Empirical support exists for both 2-factor (Impulsivity-Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional) and 3...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Dong L,Wu H,Waldman ID

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：:Supplementary methods for the analysis of the Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System (Delis, Kaplan, & Kramer, 2001) are made available, including (a) quantifying the number of abnormally low achievement scores exhibited by an individual and accompanying this with an estimate of the percentage of the normative populat...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Crawford JR,Garthwaite PH,Sutherland D,Borland N

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop a youth form of the Motivators of and Barriers to Health-Smart Behaviors Inventory (MB-HSBI-Youth) for use in identifying self-reported motivators of and barriers to the following health-promoting behaviors (called health-smart behaviors): eating a healthy breakfast, eating healthy foods and snacks...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Tucker CM,Rice KG,Desmond FF,Hou W,Kaye LB,Smith TM

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors argue for a significant shift in how clinical psychology researchers conduct construct validation and theory validation tests. They argue that sound theory and validation tests can best be conducted on measures of unidimensional or homogeneous constructs. Hierarchical organizations of such constructs are u...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Smith GT,McCarthy DM,Zapolski TC

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:The study of endophenotypes, notably with configured self-reports, represents a promising research pathway to overcome the limits of a syndromal approach of psychiatric diseases. The Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales (ANPS) is a self-report questionnaire, based on neuroethological considerations, that could he...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Pingault JB,Pouga L,Grèzes J,Berthoz S

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

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：: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