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In the context of the development of prototypic assessment instruments in the areas of cognition, personality, and adaptive functioning, the issues of standardization, norming procedures, and the important psychometrics ...

Background Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is one of the most common mental disorders; however, there is no brief clinical measure for assessing GAD. The objective of this study was to develop a brief self-report scal...

This paper presents evidence from three samples, two of college students and one of participants in a community smoking-cessation program, for the reliability and validity of a 14-item instrument, the Perceived Stress Sc...

An eleven item clinician-administered Mania Rating Scale (MRS) is introduced, and its reliability, validity and sensitivity are examined. There was a high correlation between the scores of two independent clinicians on b...

Materias / palabras clave: Psychology; Anxiety; Psychometrics; Clinical psychology; Test validity; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory; Personality Assessment Inventory; Short Forms; Reliability (semiconductor); Psychotherapist; Applied ps...

The development ofa 2 l-item self-report inventory for measuring the severity of anxiety in psychiat-ric populations i described. The initial item pool f86 items was drawn from three preexisting scales: the Anxiety Check...

We developed a multidimensional coping inventory to assess the different ways in which people respond to stress. Five scales (of four items each) measure conceptually distinct aspects of problem-focused coping (active co...

Materias / palabras clave: Autism; Psychology; Pervasive developmental disorder; Developmental disorder; Mini-international neuropsychiatric interview; Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Chi...

A general formula ( α ) of which a special case is the Kuder-Richardson coefficient of equivalence is shown to be the mean of all split-half coefficients resulting from different splittings of a test. α is therefore an...

Construct Validity in Psychological TestsVALIDATION of psychological tests has not yet been adequately concep tua1ized, as the APA Committee on Psychological Tests learned when it undertook to specify what qualities shou...

<p>This data set was collected to examine the eHealth Literacy Scale as a means of assessing eHealth literacy among German athletes. In this context, we pursued two objectives with this study: first, to test the fa...

(2000). Determining Validity in Qualitative Inquiry. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 39, Getting Good Qualitative Data to Improve Eduational Practice, pp. 124-130.

Materias / palabras clave: Geriatric Depression Scale; Rating scale; Depression (economics); Validation test; Psychology; Research Diagnostic Criteria; Psychometrics; Reliability (semiconductor); Test validity; Clinical psychology; Psychiatry; Med...

In recent studies of the structure of affect, positive and negative affect have consistently emerged as two dominant and relatively independent dimensions. A number of mood scales have been created to measure these facto...

Despite the widespread use of exploratory factor analysis in psychological research, researchers often make questionable decisions when conducting these analyses. This article reviews the major design and analytical deci...

Reliability coefficients often take the form of intraclass correlation coefficients. In this article, guidelines are given for choosing among six different forms of the intraclass correlation for reliability studies in w...

Materias / palabras clave: Scale (ratio); Psychology; Agreement; Statistics; Level of measurement; Validation test; Econometrics; Social psychology; Psychometrics; Test validity; Clinical psychology; Mathematics

Materias / palabras clave: Interpretability; Criterion validity; Quality (philosophy); Construct validity; Medicine; External validity; Systematic review; MEDLINE; Computer science; Psychometrics; Statistics; Mathematics

Materias / palabras clave: Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia; Inter-rater reliability; Medical diagnosis; Psychology; Psychiatry; Clinical psychology; Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming); Anxiety; Rating scale; Test validi...

The CES-D scale is a short self-report scale designed to measure depressive symptomatology in the general population. The items of the scale are symptoms associated with depression which have been used in previously vali...

BACKGROUND: In 1986, the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) initiated a research program to develop an integrated, modular approach for evaluating the quality of life of patients participa...

We examine and refine the Fagerström Tolerance Questionnaire (FTQ: Fagerström, 1978). The relation between each FTQ item and biochemical measures of heaviness of smoking was examined in 254 smokers. We found that the n...

Existe suficiente evidencia de que el apoyo que entrega la familia, especialmente los padres, previene la aparicin de sintomatologa en adolescentes que han sufrido abuso sexual. No obstante, el estudio del rol que juega ...

Materias / palabras clave: Medicine; Patient Health Questionnaire; Depression (economics); Medical diagnosis; Mental health; Criterion validity; Construct validity; Psychometrics; Psychiatry; Physical therapy; Depressive symptoms; Clinical psychol...