Field reliability influences field validity: Risk assessments of individuals found not guilty by reason of insanity.

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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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 autonomy preference index scale (API) has been designed to measure patient preference for 2 dimensions of autonomy: Their desire to take part in making medical decisions (decision making, [DM]) and their desire to be informed about their illness and the treatment (information seeking; [IS]). The DM dimension is me...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Morandi S,Golay P,Vazquez-Montes M,Rugkåsa J,Molodynski A,Yeeles K,Burns T

更新日期：2017-01-01 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 Texas Revised Inventory of Grief-Present scale (TRIG-Present) is one of the most widely used grief measures; however, researchers have only empirically examined the validity and underlying factor structure of TRIG-Present scores in a few studies. Hence, in the present investigation, we sought to examine the factor...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Futterman A,Holland JM,Brown PJ,Thompson LW,Gallagher-Thompson D

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：:Inhibition and switching deficits occur with healthy aging and many clinical conditions, compromising performance of daily tasks and thus quality of life. To assess deficits, saccade tasks have often been used, but they require access to expensive eye-tracking equipment and trained personnel. Moreover, with respect to...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Brett CHR,Machado L

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：:Screening for emotional and behavioral risk has become more prevalent with young children; however, not much is known about the latent structure for many of the brief instruments currently being used to assess children. Information concerning the latent structure of an instrument is necessary to support use of the sco...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： DiStefano C,Greer FW,Kamphaus RW

更新日期：2013-06-01 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：:Interest in heart rate variability (HRV) metrics as markers of physiological and psychological health continues to grow beyond those with psychophysiological expertise, increasing the importance of developing suitable tools for researchers new to the field. Allen, Chambers, and Towers (2007) developed QRSTool and CMet...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Hibbert AS,Weinberg A,Klonsky ED

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：: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：: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：:Clinical investigations of individuals with chronic stage traumatic brain injury (TBI) showing mild-to-moderate levels of residual impairment largely use standardized neuropsychological assessments to measure executive functioning. The Hayling Sentence Completion Test (HSCT) relies upon several executive functions but...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Kmiecik MJ,Rodgers BN,Martinez DM,Chapman SB,Krawczyk DC

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain catastrophizing is a key factor in modern conceptualizations of pain. The development of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale for Children (PCS-C) has greatly contributed to the interest shown by pediatric pain specialists. The purpose of this work was to study the factor structure of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale and...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Solé E,Castarlenas E,Miró J

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：:Understanding variations in children's well-being is key to addressing inequalities. It is especially useful to understand children's own perspectives, although there is a lack of short questionnaires using simple language which can be administered to younger children (or in situations when testing-time is limited). H...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Smees R,Rinaldi LJ,Simner J

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Readiness and Motivation Interview (RMI) is a semistructured interview measure of readiness and motivation to change that can be used for all eating disorder diagnoses. The RMI has demonstrated excellent psychometric properties and has both clinical and predictive utility in adult samples. This study examined the ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Geller J,Brown KE,Zaitsoff SL,Menna R,Bates ME,Dunn EC

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:Learning effects were assessed for the block design (BD) task, on the basis of variation in 2 stimulus parameters: perceptual cohesiveness (PC) and set size uncertainty (U). Thirty-one nonclinical undergraduate students (19 female) each completed 3 designs for each of 4 varied sets of the stimulus parameters (high-PC/...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Miller JC,Ruthig JC,Bradley AR,Wise RA,Pedersen HA,Ellison JM

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

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 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：:Risk assessment instruments are widely used by juvenile probation officers (JPOs) to make case management decisions; however, few studies have investigated whether these instruments maintain their predictive validity when completed by JPOs in the field. Moreover, the validity of these instruments for use with minority...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Perrault RT,Vincent GM,Guy LS

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00