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：:In 2 studies, we examined the use of validity screening items in adolescent survey data. In each study, adolescent respondents were asked whether they were telling the truth and paying attention in answering survey questions. In Study 1 (N = 7,801), the prevalence rates of student risk behaviors were significantly low...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Cornell D,Klein J,Konold T,Huang F

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study aimed to examine the relation between experiential avoidance and anxiety disorders, as well as the usefulness of the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth (AFQ-Y; Greco, Lambert, & Baer, 2008) in detecting anxiety disorder in a sample of adolescent inpatients. First, the relation between exper...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Venta A,Sharp C,Hart J

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：:We undertook a secondary data analysis to study issues relevant to co-occurring mental health and substance disorder in a combined sample of offenders (N = 3,197). Using the Personality Assessment Inventory, we compared the frequency of depressive, traumatic stress, and personality disorder symptom elevations across o...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Ruiz MA,Douglas KS,Edens JF,Nikolova NL,Lilienfeld SO

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current evidence-based assessment methods, such as structured interviews and lengthy assessment batteries, often require hours to administer, score, and interpret and thus are infrequently used in real-world practice. As evidence-based assessment tools are developed for implementation in real-world youth mental health...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Ebesutani C,Bernstein A,Chorpita BF,Weisz JR

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：: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：:This study examined the reliability and validity of an expanded version of the Iowa Sleep Disturbances Inventory (ISDI; Koffel & Watson, 2010) in 2 samples (219 college students and 200 psychiatric patients). The expanded ISDI includes the scales Sleep Paralysis and Sleep Hallucinations. These scales, along with the N...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Koffel E

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:Research on adults indicates that perfectionistic self-presentation, the interpersonal expression of one's perfection, is associated with a variety of psychopathological outcomes independent of trait perfectionism and Big Five traits. The current article reports on the development and evidence for the validity of the ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Hewitt PL,Blasberg JS,Flett GL,Besser A,Sherry SB,Caelian C,Papsdorf M,Cassels TG,Birch S

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：:We examined possible differences in the factor structure of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on the basis of whether frequency or intensity symptom response formats were used to assess PTSD. Participants included 669 veterans recruited from an epidemiological study of four Veterans Affairs Medical Centers' primary...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Elhai JD,Palmieri PA,Biehn TL,Frueh BC,Magruder KM

更新日期：2010-12-01 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

abstract：:The 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20; Bagby, Parker, & Taylor, 1994; Bagby, Taylor, & Parker, 1994) is the most widely used self-report measure of the alexithymia construct. The TAS-20 comprises 3 factors that assess difficulty identifying feelings, difficulty describing feelings, and externally oriented thin...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Parker JD,Eastabrook JM,Keefer KV,Wood LM

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study extends the validation of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) Response Bias Scale (RBS; R. O. Gervais, Y. S. Ben-Porath, D. B. Wygant, & P. Green, 2007) in separate forensic samples composed of ...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Wygant DB,Sellbom M,Gervais RO,Ben-Porath YS,Stafford KP,Freeman DB,Heilbronner RL

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：: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 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 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：:Significant motivations and incentives exist for young-adult students to seek a diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). With ADHD information readily accessible on the Internet, today's students are likely to be symptom educated prior to evaluation. This may result in false-positive diagnoses, pa...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Sollman MJ,Ranseen JD,Berry DT

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：: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：:We examined the ability of scores from the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI; Morey, 1991) to predict postrelease (M = 4.90 years follow-up) arrests in a sample of 1,412 sex offenders. We focused on scores from 4 PAI measures conceptually relevant to offending, including the Antisocial Features (ANT), Aggression (...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Boccaccini MT,Murrie DC,Hawes SW,Simpler A,Johnson J

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：: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 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：:Attributional theory and empirical evidence suggest that a tendency to make stable, global self-causal attributions for undesirable events is associated with negative outcomes. However, existing self-report measures of parental attributions do not account for the possibility that dysfunctional parent-causal attributio...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Snarr JD,Slep AM,Grande VP

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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：:In the 4 studies presented (N = 1,939), a converging set of analyses was conducted to evaluate the item adequacy, factor structure, reliability, and validity of the Disgust Scale (DS; J. Haidt, C. McCauley, & P. Rozin, 1994). The results suggest that 7 items (i.e., Items 2, 7, 8, 21, 23, 24, and 25) should be consider...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Olatunji BO,Williams NL,Tolin DF,Abramowitz JS,Sawchuk CN,Lohr JM,Elwood LS

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：: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 present study evaluated the utility of parent- and child-reported social fears for reaching a diagnosis of social phobia in youth. The diagnostic utility of (a) the number of fears and (b) specific feared social situations was examined. The sample included 140 youth and their parents: youth diagnosed with social p...

journal_title：Psychological assessment

authors： Puliafico AC,Comer JS,Kendall PC

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00