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Evaluating the psychometric properties of the Fear of Food Measure in adolescents across three independent samples. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Irina A Vanzhula,Samantha P Spoor,Sarah E Ernst,Claire E Cusack,Nicholas R Farrell,Mia Nuñez,Jamal H Essayli,Cheri A Levinson
The Fear of Food Measure (FOFM) was developed to assess eating-related anxiety and evaluate outcomes of food exposure treatment. The FOFM scores in adult community and clinical samples have demonstrated good factor structure, reliability, and validity, but the FOFM has yet to be evaluated in adolescents, despite eating disorders (EDs) being extremely prevalent during adolescence. The current research
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The bifactor structure of the Self-Compassion Scale: Bayesian approaches to overcome exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) limitations. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Herbert W Marsh,Madeleine I Fraser,Arman Rakhimov,Joseph Ciarrochi,Jiesi Guo
The rapidly expanding self-compassion research is driven mainly by Neff's (2003a, 2003b, 2023) six-factor Self-Compassion Scale (SCS). Despite broad agreement on its six-first-order factor structure, there is much debate on SCS's global structure (one- vs. two-global factors). Neff et al. (2019) argue for an exploratory structural equation model (ESEM) with six specific and one global bifactor (6ESEM
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A matter of measure? Assessing the three dimensions of narcissism. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Sabrina Schneider,Sandy Sue Spormann,Isabel Monika Maass,Andreas Mokros
The Trifurcated Model of Narcissism (TriMN) has received growing attention in the scientific study of narcissistic traits, as it provides a clear and clinically useful distinction of the three core elements of narcissistic personalities: agentic extraversion (AE), narcissistic antagonism (NA), and narcissistic neuroticism (NN). So far, the Five-Factor Narcissism Inventory (FFNI) and its abbreviations-for
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Further validation of the Personality Disorder Severity for ICD-11 (PDS-ICD-11) scale in a community mental health sample. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Tiffany A Brown,Martin Sellbom
The International Classification of Diseases, 11th Edition (ICD-11) has reconceptualized personality disorders (PD), and measures are therefore being developed to aid the assessment of ICD-11 PD. The present study examined the validity of the recently developed self-report inventory the Personality Disorder Severity for ICD-11 (PDS-ICD-11), and its utility in differentiating across ICD-11 PD severity
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Assessing the measurement invariance of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 across Black and White americans. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Colin D Freilich,Isabella M Palumbo,Robert D Latzman,Robert F Krueger
The Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5) is the primary tool for assessing maladaptive personality traits within the DSM-5 alternative model for personality disorders. Evidence has begun to accumulate on the replicability and measurement invariance of its five-domain factor structure across countries, clinical and community populations, and sex, but its equivalency across racial groups within a
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A crisis in college student mental health? Self-ratings of psychopathology before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Julianna G Nails,Joseph Maffly-Kipp,Hilary L DeShong,Sara E Lowmaster,John E Kurtz
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of college students was investigated in a cross-sectional design using the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI; Morey, 1991, 2007). Three large samples of college students were recruited for research purposes and given standard instructions: 825 students from two universities assessed in the 2021-2022 academic year (postpandemic), 558 students
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The Cannabis Effects Expectancy Questionnaire-Medical (CEEQ-M): Preliminary psychometric properties and longitudinal validation within a clinical trial. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Jakob H Weiss,Brenden Tervo-Clemmens,Kevin W Potter,A Eden Evins,Jodi M Gilman
The use of cannabis for medical symptoms is increasing despite limited evidence for its efficacy. Expectancies-prior beliefs about a substance or medicine-can modulate use patterns and effects of medicines on target symptoms. To our knowledge, cannabis expectancies have not been studied for their predictive value for symptom relief. The 21-item Cannabis Effects Expectancy Questionnaire-Medical (CEEQ-M)
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The use of MMPI-3 scales to assess personality-based vulnerabilities for alcohol use and problems. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Colette N Delawalla,Tayla T C Lee,Megan A Keen
Impulsivity and excitement seeking are distinctly associated with alcohol use and related problems in emerging adulthood. Specifically, impulsivity is associated with alcohol problems, while excitement seeking is associated with quantity and frequency of alcohol use (Finn, 2002; Gunn et al., 2013). Given how critical these traits are to alcohol use disorder, such that they play central roles in prominent
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Development and validation of the Personal Assessment of Responsible Drinking Identity (PARDI) with a college student sample. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Angelina V Leary,Robert D Dvorak,Emily K Burr,Roselyn Peterson,Ardhys N De Leon,Samantha J Klaver,Madison H Maynard
Recent research shows a link between identity and behavior change. Despite the existence of several measures that assess components of drinking identity, no measures examine the idiosyncrasies of a "Responsible Drinking Identity," though responsible drinking is an aim of many alcohol-related interventions. The present study created a measure of responsible drinking identity, the Personal Assessment
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Enhancing precision of the Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status-Modified (TICS-M) using the Rasch model. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Quoc C Truong,Carol Choo,Katya Numbers,Adam Bentvelzen,Alexander G Merkin,Henry Brodaty,Nicole A Kochan,Valery L Feigin,Perminder S Sachdev,Oleg N Medvedev
The Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status-modified (TICS-M) is a well-established and widely used screening instrument for dementia and assessment of global cognitive function in older people. This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the TICS-M and to enhance the accuracy of the instrument using Rasch methodology. Partial Credit Rasch model was applied to the TICS-M scores. The
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Free to be me with you: Development of the Individuality in Couples Questionnaire. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Rebecca L Brock,Erin L Ramsdell,Molly R Franz,Sara M Stasik-O'Brien,Sarah J Gervais,Frances C Calkins
Despite multiple theories and treatment modalities emphasizing the importance of individuality in couple relationships, the field is lacking a reliable and valid measure of this construct. In the present study, we developed the Individuality in Couples (ICQ) questionnaire and demonstrated its strong psychometric properties across two samples of participants in committed intimate relationships (Sample
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Measurement invariance of maternal depressive symptoms across the first 2 years since birth and across racial group, education, income, primiparity, and age. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Emily R Padrutt,Meriah L DeJoseph,Sylia Wilson,Roger Mills-Koonce,Daniel Berry
Up to 19% of postpartum mothers experience depressive symptoms, which are associated with infant development. Thus, research examining postpartum depression has implications for mothers' and infants' well-being. However, this research relies on the often-untested assumption of measurement invariance-that measures capture the same construct across time and sociodemographic characteristics. In the absence
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Psychometric properties of the German teen and parent versions of the Problem Areas in Diabetes Scale (PAID). Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Heike Saßmann,Su-Jong Kim-Dorner,Juliane Framme,Bettina Heidtmann,Thomas Kapellen,Olga Kordonouri,Karolin M E Krosta,Nicole Pisarek,Karin Lange
The negative impact of psychosocial burden in connection with the treatment of Type 1 diabetes (T1D) indicates the need for regular screening of diabetes distress in adolescents with T1D and their parents. Psychometric properties of the German versions of Problem Areas in Diabetes scale-Teen (PAID-T) and Parent (P-PAID-T) are examined in order to provide a clinical screening tool. Linguistically translated
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Validation of different forms of present-moment awareness using cognitive and behavioral outcomes. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Kenneth G DeMarree,Kristin Naragon-Gainey,Abigail Giancola
The recently developed Multidimensional Awareness Scale (MAS) consists of three subscales assessing individual differences in present-moment awareness of internal states (meta-awareness; MAS-MA), present-moment awareness of the external world (external awareness; MAS-EA), and in the adoption of a detached, observer perspective on one's current internal states (decentered awareness; MAS-DA). The present
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Caregiver-reported development in term and preterm infants from birth to nine months of age: Psychometrics of the PediaTracTM social/communication/cognition domain. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Renée Lajiness-O'Neill,Seth Warschausky,Alissa Huth-Bocks,H Gerry Taylor,Patricia Berglund,Angela D Staples,Angela Lukomski,Judith Brooks,Jennifer Cano,Trivellore Raghunathan,
Term and preterm neonates were assessed at the newborn (NB) period (term, term equivalent) and at 2, 4, 6, and 9 months in a study of the psychometric properties of the Social/Communication/Cognition (SCG) domain of PediaTrac™ v3.0, a novel caregiver-based developmental monitoring instrument. Item response theory (IRT) was used to model item parameters and estimate theta, an index of the latent trait
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Further mapping of the MMPI-3 onto HiTOP in a primary medical care and a college student sample. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Jacob R Brown,Adam D Hicks,Martin Sellbom,David M McCord
The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP; Kotov et al., 2017, 2021) is offered as a dimensional alternative to traditional categorical diagnostic nosologies such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and International Classification of Diseases (ICD). HiTOP researchers have recently published an open-source assessment system for clinical implementation, the HiTOP
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The Alcohol Relief Questionnaire: Development and validation of a multidimensional scale to measure the psychological, interpersonal, sleep, and physical relief effects of drinking. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Andrew Lac,Jeremy W Luk
Several major alcohol theoretical frameworks postulate that people consume alcohol to attain relief from negative states. These relief experiences are consistent with the classification of alcohol as a central nervous system depressant and may reinforce drinking behaviors that sustain the addiction cycle. The present research developed and validated a multidimensional questionnaire to assess the relief
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Agreement between mother, father, and teacher ratings of cognitive disengagement syndrome (sluggish cognitive tempo) in children with autism and children with ADHD. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Susan D Mayes,Susan L Calhoun,Daniel A Waschbusch
No studies have analyzed differences between mother, father, and teacher ratings of cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS; formerly sluggish cognitive tempo). The sample included 1,115 children with autism and/or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) 4-16 years of age who were rated by mothers on the Pediatric Behavior Scale. Subsets of these children were also rated by fathers and/or teachers
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Measurement invariance of commonly used psychosis-screening scales in U.S. Spanish- and English-speaking Hispanic participants. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-04-01 Thomas A Bart,Charlie C Su,Deisy Gonzalez Zapata,Clare Alsup,Megan M Hricovec,Jennifer L Callahan,Camilo J Ruggero,David C Cicero
Two of the most commonly used psychosis screening measures are the Prodromal Questionnaire-Brief (PQ-B) and the Youth Psychosis at Risk Questionnaire-Brief (YPARQ-B). Both scales have considerable support for the reliability and validity of their scores for use with English- and Spanish-speaking participants, with measurement equivalence established across a subset of demographic characteristics. However
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The Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire from adolescence to emerging adulthood: Measurement invariance across time and sex. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Pascal Schlechter,Paul O Wilkinson,Tamsin J Ford,Sharon A S Neufeld
Adolescence to emerging adulthood is a critical period for the onset of depressive symptoms. Understanding symptom change during this period is thus of great clinical relevance. This understanding is, however, based on the premise of the accurate measurement of depressive symptoms across time and sex, typically untested in applied research. The present study investigated longitudinal and sex measurement
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Investigating gender-based differential item functioning on the McLean Screening Instrument for Borderline Personality Disorder (MSI-BPD): An item response theory analysis. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Jacob A Martin,Danielle M Tarantino,Kenneth N Levy
The McLean Screening Instrument for Borderline Personality Disorder (MSI-BPD) is a popular screening tool for identifying people who may have borderline personality disorder (BPD). However, because women are more frequently diagnosed with the disorder than men, it is possible that the MSI-BPD differs in its ability to identify BPD as a function of gender identity. Using item response theory (IRT),
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Measuring affect in daily life: A multilevel psychometric evaluation of the PANAS-X across four ecological momentary assessment samples. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Alison M Haney,Megan N Fleming,Andrea M Wycoff,Sarah A Griffin,Timothy J Trull
While there is strong evidence for the psychometric reliability of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule-Expanded Form (PANAS-X) in cross-sectional studies, the between- and within-person psychometric performance of the PANAS-X in an intensive longitudinal framework is less understood. As affect is thought to be dynamic and responsive to context, this study investigated the multilevel reliability
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Evaluation of a 36-item measure of ICD-11 and DSM-5 personality disorder trait domains and facets in Russian inpatients. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Mikhail Zinchuk,Georgii Kustov,Bo Bach,Evgenii Pashnin,Anna Gersamija,Alexander Yakovlev,Nadezhda Voinova,Sofya Popova,Alla Guekht
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5) and International Classification of Diseases 11th revision (ICD-11) have introduced a new dimensional approach to personality disorder (PD) classification that relies on the global level of PD severity and individual expressions of personality dysfunction in terms of specified trait domains (i.e., negative affectivity
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Comparing behavioral and psychological symptom structures on the Neuropsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 David Andrés González,Zachary J Resch,Maximilian A Obolsky,Jason R Soble
The Neuropsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire (NPI-Q) is a collateral-rated measure of behavioral and psychological symptoms commonly found in dementia (BPSD). Several factor structures have been published, but they have not been systematically compared. Furthermore, the possibility of hierarchical models or presence of measurement invariance around cognitive stage or dementia syndrome has not been
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Measurement invariance of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for children, fifth edition, in Australian and New Zealand and U.S. standardization samples. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Christopher J Wilson,Stephen C Bowden,Louis-Charles Vannier,Linda K Byrne,Lawrence G Weiss
Measurement invariance underlies construct validity generalization in psychology and must be demonstrated prior to any cross-population comparison of means and validity correlations. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the measurement invariance of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fifth Edition (WISC-V) across Australia and New Zealand (A&NZ) versus the U.S. normative samples. The
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Protective factors in the prediction of criminal outcomes for youth with sexual offenses using tools developed for adults and adolescents: Tests of direct effects and moderation of risk. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Calvin M Langton,Meredith J Awrey,James R Worling
Interest in protective factors in risk assessment work with adjudicated populations is increasing and evidence suggests that protective factors in structured professional judgment (SPJ) tools predict the absence of one or more types of recidivism with some evidence also of incremental validity in recidivism-desistance prediction models with risk scales. But, there is little evidence of interactions
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Criterion a of the alternative model of personality disorders: Structure and validity in a community sample. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Amanda A Uliaszek,Maya E Amestoy,Marc A Fournier,Nadia Al-Dajani
The alternative model of personality disorders were designed to represent the presence of personality dysfunction (Criterion A) and pathological personality traits (Criterion B). Much of the empirical attention toward this model has been directed toward testing the performance of Criterion B. However, the development of the Levels of Personality Functioning Scale-Self-Report (LPFS-SR) has sparked a
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Statistical learning methods and cross-cultural fairness: Trade-offs and implications for risk assessment instruments. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Linda J Ashford,Benjamin L Spivak,James R P Ogloff,Stephane M Shepherd
The use of statistical learning methods has recently increased within the risk assessment literature. They have primarily been used to increase accuracy and the area under the curve (AUC, i.e., discrimination). Processing approaches applied to statistical learning methods have also emerged to increase cross-cultural fairness. However, these approaches are rarely trialed in the forensic psychology discipline
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Psychometric properties of the Spanish Acceptance and Action Questionnaire for Weight-Related Difficulties-Revised (AAQW-R). Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Idoia Iturbe,Enrique Echeburúa,Edurne Maiz
Based on the original 22-item single-factor questionnaire, the 10-item second-order Acceptance and Action Questionnaire for Weight-Related Difficulties-Revised (AAQW-R) was developed for measuring weight-related experiential avoidance. This instrument showed good psychometric properties, and it has been validated to different contexts. However, no Spanish validation has been conducted, to date. Therefore
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Sleep-related items on the school-age CBCL and the PROMIS sleep disturbance 4-item short-form: A psychometric comparison from the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Maxwell Mansolf,Courtney K Blackwell
The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) parent-report school-age form, a broad instrument widely used to evaluate youth's emotional and behavioral functioning, includes seven sleep-related items. These items are not an official subscale of the CBCL, but researchers have used them as a measure of general sleep problems. The primary objective of the present study was to evaluate the construct validity of
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Social and behavioral consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic: Validation of a Pandemic Disengagement Syndrome Scale (PDSS) in four national contexts. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Gabriele Prati,Anthony D Mancini
The aim of the present study was to develop and validate a self-report measure that investigates people's general disengagement after the acute phases of the pandemic. Across three studies, we examined the psychometric features of the Pandemic Disengagement Syndrome Scale (PDSS) in four national contexts. In Study 1, we developed the instrument and investigated the factorial structure, internal consistency
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Evidence of validation of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-18 in Arab, Middle Eastern, and North African emerging adults living in the United States. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Hana-May Eadeh,Khadeja Najjar
Arab, Middle Eastern, and North African (Arab/MENA) individuals are regularly unaccounted for in research because they are conflated with the racial category "White." The systematic underrepresentation of Arab/MENA individuals in research persists, despite the fact that Arab/MENA individuals experience stigma, discrimination, and structural barriers that separate them from their White peers and contribute
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Validity and reliability of the Body-Esteem Scale among a diverse sample of preadolescent youth. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Marisol Perez,Samantha F Anderson,Taryn Henning,Kimberly Y Yu,Francesca Gomez,Jenna Stadheim,Jaimee N Virgo,Sarah G Hidalgo
Researchers have called for more psychometric research on body image assessment measures in children. The Body-Esteem Scale (BES) is a commonly used 24-item measure of self-evaluation of body image in youth, yet only one study has evaluated the psychometric properties of this measure in preadolescent children. The goal of the present study was to replicate and extend the original psychometric work
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Peak-end bias in retrospective recall of depressive symptoms on the PHQ-9. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Adam G Horwitz,Zhuo Zhao,Srijan Sen
Mental health care is built around patient recall and report of clinical symptoms. However, memories of events and experiences rely on cognitive heuristics that influence our recall. The peak-end bias, which refers to the tendency for the most intense and proximate aspects of an experience to disproportionately influence our memory, has been understudied in the context of mental health symptoms and
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Comparison of the accuracy of the 7-item HADS Depression subscale and 14-item total HADS for screening for major depression: A systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Yin Wu,Brooke Levis,Federico M Daray,John P A Ioannidis,Scott B Patten,Pim Cuijpers,Roy C Ziegelstein,Simon Gilbody,Felix H Fischer,Suiqiong Fan,Ying Sun,Chen He,Ankur Krishnan,Dipika Neupane,Parash Mani Bhandari,Zelalem Negeri,Kira E Riehm,Danielle B Rice,Marleine Azar,Xin Wei Yan,Mahrukh Imran,Matthew J Chiovitti,Jill T Boruff,Dean McMillan,Lorie A Kloda,Sarah Markham,Melissa Henry,Zahinoor Ismail
The seven-item Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale Depression subscale (HADS-D) and the total score of the 14-item HADS (HADS-T) are both used for major depression screening. Compared to the HADS-D, the HADS-T includes anxiety items and requires more time to complete. We compared the screening accuracy of the HADS-D and HADS-T for major depression detection. We conducted an individual participant
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Machine learning and deep learning systems for automated measurement of "advanced" theory of mind: Reliability and validity in children and adolescents. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Rory T Devine,Venelin Kovatchev,Imogen Grumley Traynor,Phillip Smith,Mark Lee
Understanding individual differences in theory of mind (ToM; the ability to attribute mental states to others) in middle childhood and adolescence hinges on the availability of robust and scalable measures. Open-ended response tasks yield valid indicators of ToM but are labor intensive and difficult to compare across studies. We examined the reliability and validity of new machine learning and deep
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Psychometric properties of the Spanish adaptation of the Externalizing Spectrum Inventory-Brief Form (ESI-BF). Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Andrea Blanc-Molina,Manuel Sanchez-Garcia,Christopher J Patrick,Robert F Krueger,Fermin Fernandez-Calderon,Oscar M Lozano,Ana de la Rosa-Cáceres,Carmen Diaz-Batanero
The Externalizing Spectrum Inventory-Brief Form (ESI-BF) measures tendencies toward disinhibition, lack of control, aggression, and substance use. This study adapts the ESI-BF to the Spanish population and assesses its psychometric properties. The study included 742 community adults obtained by stratified random sampling with proportional allocation according to gender, age, and geographical area of
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Considerations and complexities of accurate PTSD assessment among transgender and gender diverse adults. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Sarah E Valentine,Ash M Smith,Kristin Miller,Laura Hadden,Jillian C Shipherd
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) assessment among transgender and gender diverse (TGD) adults is complex because the literature offers little guidance on affirming assessment that accurately captures both trauma- and discrimination-related distress. This study aimed to characterize threats to precise PTSD assessment that arose during the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for the Diagnostic and
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Psychometric evaluation of a Visual Interpersonal Analog Scale. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 William C Woods,Elizabeth A Edershile,Whitney R Ringwald,Brinkley M Sharpe,Philip H Himmelstein,Michelle G Newman,Stephen J Wilson,William D Ellison,Kenneth N Levy,Aaron L Pincus,J David Creswell,Aidan G C Wright
Interpersonal theory organizes social behavior along dominant (vs. submissive) and warm (vs. cold) dimensions. There is a growing interest in assessing these behaviors in naturalistic settings to maximize ecological validity and to study dynamic social processes. Studies that have assessed interpersonal behavior in daily life have primarily relied on behavioral checklists. Although checklists have
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Confirmatory measurement modeling and longitudinal invariance of the CompACT-15: A short-form assessment of psychological flexibility. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Ti Hsu,Lesa Hoffman,Emily B K Thomas
The Comprehensive Assessment of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Processes (CompACT; Francis et al., 2016) is a recently developed measure of psychological flexibility (PF) possessing several advantages over other measures of PF, including multidimensional assessment and relative brevity. Unfortunately, previous psychometric evaluations of the CompACT have been limited by their use of exploratory
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Psychometric properties of a combined go/no-go and continuous performance task across childhood. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Caron A C Clark,Kaitlyn Cook,Rui Wang,Michael Rueschman,Jerilynn Radcliffe,Susan Redline,H Gerry Taylor
Despite the critical importance of attention for children's self-regulation and mental health, there are few task-based measures of this construct appropriate for use across a wide childhood age range including very young children. Three versions of a combined go/no-go and continuous performance task (GNG/CPT) were created with varying length and timing parameters to maximize their appropriateness
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Screening for executive function difficulties: An evaluation of the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function-2nd Edition Screener, Teacher Report (BRIEF2-TS). Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Nicolette Waschl,Kiat Hui Khng,Rebecca Bull,Ee Lynn Ng,He Sun,Wei Teng Chan
Executive functions (EFs) correlate positively with many developmental outcomes, and ecologically valid measures of EFs may be more predictive of some outcomes than performance-based measures. Accordingly, there is a need to evaluate short EF rating scales, such as the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function-2nd Edition Screener, Teacher Report (BRIEF2-TS). Data from 1,322 kindergarten children
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The Inventory of Problems-29 (IOP-29): A systematic review and bivariate diagnostic test accuracy meta-analysis. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Esteban Puente-López,David Pina,Rubén López-Nicolás,Isabel Iguacel,Ramón Arce
The Inventory of Problems-29 (IOP-29) is a 29-item self-administered symptom validity test (SVT) that assesses the credibility of clinical presentations related to posttraumatic stress disorder, depression/anxiety, psychosis, cognitive impairment and combination thereof. To date, no publications have summarized the classification accuracy of the IOP-29 using a bivariate meta-analytical approach that
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Disentangling language-related item biases in stress research with people of Turkish origin in Germany: An application of the CCT procedure. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Laura Scholaske,Nida E Sari,Matthias Ziegler
Psychological stress experiences play a major role in the development of ethnic health disparities. Investigating such relationships often requires the use of questionnaires in different languages, however, this involves the risk of biased measurements. Such biases may be even more likely to occur the closer the construct being measured is to cultural experiences. We adapted the culture, comprehension
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Factor structure and psychometric performance of the PCL-5 in a clinical sample of veterans seeking treatment in a VA PTSD outpatient clinic. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Michael Jenkins-Guarnieri,Courtney McEuin,Derek Smolenski,Ryan Hosey,Brian Macobin,Annabel Prins
There is a clear need to improve the measurement of posttraumatic symptoms in veterans seeking trauma-focused treatment. We evaluated the structure and psychometric performance of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Checklist for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (PCL-5) in a naturalistic sample of veterans engaging in evidence-based therapy in a Veterans
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Development and validation of the Social Reward Questionnaire-Early Childhood. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Kate J Godfrey,Lucy Foulkes,Carly McMorris,Ashley D Harris,Signe Bray
Social interactions like group inclusion, receiving praise, or treating others kindly can be motivating and enjoyable. Social reward sensitivity, including motivation and enjoyment, varies between individuals. In early childhood, this variation may relate to differences in social experience and development. Social reward questionnaires have been developed to measure individual differences in social
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Participation and compliance in a 6-month daily diary study among individuals at risk for mental health problems. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Marieke J Schreuder,Robin N Groen,Johanna T W Wigman,Marieke Wichers,Catharina A Hartman
Intensive longitudinal (IL) measurement, which involves prolonged self-monitoring, may have important clinical applications but is also burdening. This raises the question who takes part in and successfully completes IL measurements. This preregistered study investigated which demographic, personality, economic, social, psychological, or physical participant characteristics are associated with participation
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Looking inside the black box of mindfulness meditation: Investigating attention and awareness during meditation using the mindful awareness task (MAT). Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Yuval Hadash,Liad Ruimi,Amit Bernstein
Training attention and awareness in mindfulness meditation is theorized to be essential for the cultivation of mindfulness and its salutary outcomes. Yet, the empirical foundation for this central premise in mindfulness science is surprisingly small due to a limited methodological capacity to measure attention and awareness during mindfulness meditation. Accordingly, we set out to measure and study
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Construction and preliminary validation of an inconsistent responding scale for the HEXACO-100. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Alexa M Lambros,David K Marcus,Madeline G Nagel
Inconsistent responding poses a particular risk to self-report data and is a common phenomenon in undergraduate and community subject pools. The HEXACO-100 personality inventory (Lee & Ashton, 2018) lacks internal validity scales that could be used to identify inconsistent responding. To address this need, the present study developed a HEXACO Inconsistent Responding Test (HIRT). Highly correlated and
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Development, validation, and comparison of self-report measures for positive and negative affect in intensive longitudinal research. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Leonie Cloos,Eva Ceulemans,Peter Kuppens
Affect is central to human functioning. Due to its dynamic nature, it is often studied with intensive longitudinal designs, yet the development and validation of measures for this purpose have received little systematic attention. In the present study, we review theoretical and methodological conceptualizations of affect that are relevant for repeated momentary positive and negative affect measurement
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Checking the scales: A psychometric evaluation of the Weight Concerns Scale in a sample of college-aged cisgender men from the United States. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Kyle M Brasil,Callie E Mims,Ryon C McDermott,Mary E Pritchard
Historically, western societies have considered body image issues to predominantly affect young, White women. While in recent years men's body image issues have been increasingly highlighted by researchers and the media alike, many instruments currently used to identify clinically significant body image disturbances were developed and validated with samples solely of women and/or girls. One such measure
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Validating the German version of the Personality Disorder Severity-ICD-11 Scale using nominal response models. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Johannes Zimmermann,Carl F Falk,Leon Wendt,Carsten Spitzer,Felix Fischer,Bo Bach,Martin Sellbom,Sascha Müller
The International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) features a new classification of personality disorders (PD), focusing on the severity of PD. Although there are numerous self-report measures that assess PD severity, to date only the Personality Disorder Severity-ICD-11 (PDS-ICD-11) is based on ICD-11's operationalization of PD. Initial results indicated that the PDS-ICD-11 measures a unidimensional
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Factor structure, measurement invariance, and scoring practices of the strengths and weaknesses of ADHD-symptoms and normal behavior. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Salvador Trejo,Adrián Alberto Andaverde-Vega,Luis Villalobos-Gallegos,James M Swanson,Giovanni Abrahão Salum
We investigate the factor structure, concurrent validity, internal consistency, measurement invariance (sex and parents' geographical/cultural background), and practical scoring practices of the Strengths and Weaknesses of Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)-Symptoms and Normal Behavior scale (SWAN) in junior high school students. With a sample of 650 parents of Mexican junior high school
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Video-based Interpersonal Behavioral Evaluation (VIBE): A novel method for the assessment of interpersonal judgment. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Morgan N McCredie,Leslie C Morey
One barrier to fully understanding and treating the interpersonal difficulties associated with a variety of psychiatric disorders is a current lack of suitable methodology, which aligns with contemporary interpersonal theory and offers a comprehensive assessment of interpersonal judgment. Specifically, no standardized behavioral interpersonal assessment exists that assesses the accuracy and biases
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A comparison of the predictive accuracy of structured and unstructured risk assessment methods for the prediction of recidivism in individuals convicted of sexual and violent offense. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Maximilian Wertz,Susanne Schobel,Kolja Schiltz,Martin Rettenberger
One of the most commonly replicated results in the research area of recidivism risk assessment is the superiority of structured and standardized prediction methods in comparison to unstructured, subjective, intuitive, or impressionistic clinical judgments. However, the quality of evidence supporting this conclusion is partly still controversially discussed because studies including direct comparisons
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Investigating the dynamic nature of multiple risk assessment instruments in a forensic mental health hospital. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Melanie L Simmons,James R P Ogloff,Michael Daffern
Readministration of multiple risk assessment instruments to determine the risk of aggression over the short, medium, and long term is common practice in many forensic mental health settings. Justification for the repeated administration and use of multiple instruments is based on purported differences in discriminative validity of risk factors according to whether they are characterized as static,
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Development and validation of the Inventory of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms-II-German version. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Robin Anno Wester,Julian Rubel,Johannes Zimmermann,Mila Hall,Leonie Kaven,David Watson
The expanded version of the Inventory of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms (IDAS-II) is a 99-item self-report measure containing 18 nonoverlapping dimensional scales assessing symptoms of depression, anxiety, and mania. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a German adaptation of the IDAS-II. Participants from a community sample (N = 1,054) completed the IDAS-II (German version). In addition
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The Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration Scales probably do not validly measure need frustration. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Brett A Murphy,Ashley L Watts,Zachary G Baker,Brian P Don,Tatum A Jolink,Sara B Algoe
In basic psychological needs theory (BPNT), the separable constructs of need satisfaction and need frustration are theorized as pivotally related to psychopathology and broader aspects of well-being. The Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration Scales (BPNSFS; Chen et al., 2015) have rapidly emerged as the dominant self-report measure in the BPNT domain, with translated versions available
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Diagnostic accuracy of the Child and Adolescent Symptom Inventory (CASI-4R) substance use subscale in detecting substance use disorders in youth. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Angelina Pei-Tzu Tsai,Eric A Youngstrom,Kenneth D Gadow,Sarah M Horwitz,Mary A Fristad,Stacey B Daughters,Andrea S Young,L Eugene Arnold,Boris Birmaher,Stephanie Salcedo,The Lams Group,Robert L Findling
Identifying substance use disorders (SUDs) early and accurately improves case formulation and treatment. Previous studies have investigated validity and reliability of the Child and Adolescent Symptom Inventory (CASI) for anxiety, mood, and behavior problems. The present study's aim was to test if the embedded CASI Substance Use (SU) subscale can discriminate adolescents and young adults (AYA) with
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The Posttraumatic Cognitions Inventory (PTCI): Psychometric evaluation in veteran men and women with trauma exposure. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Kelsey N. Serier, Rachel L. Zelkowitz, Brian N. Smith, Dawne Vogt, Karen S. Mitchell
The Posttraumatic Cognitions Inventory (PTCI) is a self-report measure of negative posttraumatic cognitions, which is an important construct in the development and maintenance of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Evidence for the most appropriate PTCI item and factor structure is mixed, and this measure has not been extensively studied in veterans. The present study examined the psychometric properties