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The Coronavirus Anxiety Scale: Cross-national measurement invariance and convergent validity evidence. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Veljko Jovanović,Maksim Rudnev,Mohamed Abdelrahman,Nor Ba'yah Abdul Kadir,Damilola Fisayo Adebayo,Plamen Akaliyski,Rana Alaseel,Yousuf Abdulqader Alkamali,Luz Marina Alonso Palacio,Azzam Amin,Andrii Andres,Alireza Ansari-Moghaddam,John Jamir Benzon Aruta,Hrant M Avanesyan,Norzihan Ayub,Maria Bacikova-Sleskova,Raushan Baikanova,Batoul Bakkar,Sunčica Bartoluci,David Benitez,Ivanna Bodnar,Aidos Bolatov
Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) is a widely used measure that captures somatic symptoms of coronavirus-related anxiety. In a large-scale collaboration spanning 60 countries (Ntotal = 21,513), we examined the CAS's measurement invariance and assessed the convergent validity of CAS scores in relation to the fear of COVID-19 (FCV-19S) and the satisfaction with life (SWLS-3) scales. We utilized both conventional
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Development and initial validation of a self-report measure to assess eating disorder-specific interoceptive perception. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Julie Ortmann,Annika P C Lutz,Gitta Rose,Christian Happ,Claus Vögele,André Schulz,Zoé van Dyck
Interoceptive deficits-particularly with respect to the perception of emotions, hunger, and satiety-constitute important targets for intervention in eating disorders (EDs). Suitable self-report measures to identify these deficits, however, are lacking. We, therefore, developed and validated a multidimensional questionnaire to assess eating disorder-specific interoceptive perception (EDIP) in terms
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MMPI-2-RF validity scales add utility for predicting treatment engagement during partial psychiatric hospitalizations. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Craig A Marquardt,Amanda G Ferrier-Auerbach,Marianne M Schumacher,Paul A Arbisi
Partial psychiatric hospitalizations are resource-intensive clinical services designed to stabilize patients in the short term, prevent inpatient hospitalizations, and encourage long-term recovery. Typically, providers base their referral decisions on categorical diagnoses and subjective impressions of patient distress without closely considering the evidence for reporting biases. The present study
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Intervening on high-risk responses during ecological momentary assessment of suicidal thoughts: Is there an effect on study data? Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Kate H Bentley,Alexander J Millner,Adam Bear,Lia Follet,Rebecca G Fortgang,Kelly L Zuromski,Evan M Kleiman,Daniel D L Coppersmith,Franchesca Castro-Ramirez,Yael Millgram,Adam Haim,Suzanne A Bird,Matthew K Nock
Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is increasingly used to study suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs). There is a potential ethical obligation for researchers to intervene when receiving information about suicidal thoughts in real time. A possible concern, however, is that intervening when receiving responses that indicate high risk for suicide during EMA research may impact how participants respond
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Exploring the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)-3 in a transgender and gender diverse sample. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 William T Bryant,Nicholas A Livingston,John L McNulty,Kurt T Choate,Elizabeth J Santa Ana,Yossef S Ben-Porath
Comparisons of transgender and gender diverse (TGD) individuals' mental health functioning with that of cisgender individuals rely almost exclusively on screening measures. The limited research with TGD individuals and omnibus assessment measures has primarily used previous iterations of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories (MMPIs). This study sought to examine the psychometric functioning
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Gender-inclusive clinical screeners: Using CBCLs and YSRs in a clinic-based sample of transgender/gender-diverse youth. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Mary O'Brien McAdaragh,Benjamin Parchem,Jeremy Duval,Zoe G Baccam,Taymy J Caso,Katherine Arenella,Dianne R Berg,G Nic Rider
This study examines differences in score profiles on the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and Youth Self-Report (YSR) for transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) youth in a clinical setting. Data were collected from youth receiving services at a gender care clinic in the Midwestern United States. Inclusion criteria were youth that identify as transgender, nonbinary, or another gender-diverse identity label
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The Fear of COVID-19 Scale: A meta-analytic structural equation modeling approach. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Desirée Blázquez-Rincón,Raimundo Aguayo-Estremera,Zainab Alimoradi,Elahe Jafari,Amir H Pakpour
The widespread administration and multiple validations of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) in different languages have highlighted the controversy over its underlying structure and the resulting reliability index. In the present study, a meta-analysis based on structural equation modeling (MASEM) was conducted to assess the internal structure of the seven-item, 5-point Likert-type FCV-19S version
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Network analysis of psychosomatic symptoms in pharmacists during the pandemic. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Wenhao Jiang,Qingfei Liu,Yue Sun,Yucheng Yuan,Zhen Wu,Yonggui Yuan
We explored the networks and discriminant abilities of the current Psychosomatic Symptoms Scale (PSSS) in pharmacists for future abbreviation. Ten thousand seven hundred twenty-one pharmacists participated in this study through an online investigation. We used network analysis to reveal the central and bridge symptoms between the subscales (psychological and somatic symptoms) of the PSSS. Then, we
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Differences in cognitive and academic performance during the COVID-19 pandemic in child psychiatric outpatients. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Mary K Colvin,Maya R Koven,Pieter J Vuijk,Lauren E Fleming,Kaycee L Reese,Carolyn Cassill,Clara S Beery,Ellen B Braaten,Alysa E Doyle
This study examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cognitive and academic functioning in 574 youth presenting for outpatient clinical neuropsychiatric evaluations. We extended the prior literature by (a) determining the extent to which academic difficulties documented in population and community samples also occurred in child psychiatric outpatients; (b) evaluating the impact of the pandemic
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The COVID-19 pandemic and measurement of preschoolers' executive functions. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Kristin J Perry,Gretchen R Perhamus,Maria C Lent,Dianna Murray-Close,Jamie M Ostrov
Given the far-reaching effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to investigate how executive function (EF) assessments were impacted by changes in measurement protocols, context, and timing due to the pandemic. The present study used data from two projects. The first project occurred prior to the pandemic (N = 244, 44.67% female; Mage = 44.27 months) with teacher ratings and objective EF measures
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Comparability of MMPI-3 scores from remote and in-person administrations and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on MMPI-3 scores. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Andrew J Kremyar,Megan R Whitman,Jordan T Hall,Keefe J Maccarone,Maria C Cimino,William H Menton,Yossef S Ben-Porath
The COVID-19 pandemic onset necessitated remote administration of psychological instruments, including the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-3 (MMPI-3). Although previous evidence has demonstrated that MMPI scale scores are robust across administration modalities, the specific effects of remote administration on the psychometric properties of MMPI-3 scale scores must be investigated. Distinguishing
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Predictors of time-varying and time-invariant components of psychological distress during COVID-19 in the U.K. Household Longitudinal Study (understanding society). Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Pascal Schlechter,Tamsin J Ford,Sally McManus,Sharon A S Neufeld
To understand psychological distress during COVID-19, we need to ensure that the same construct is measured over time and investigate how much of the variance in distress is attributable to chronic time-invariant variance compared to transient time-varying variance. We conducted secondary data analyses of Understanding Society, a U.K. probability-based longitudinal study of adults, using prepandemic
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Contrasting MMPI-3 validity scale effectiveness differences across in-person and telehealth administration procedures. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Lillian P Agarwal,Megan A Keen,Cole S Morris,Paul B Ingram
Psychological assessment underwent substantive challenges and changes when the COVID-19 pandemic began, and these changes are likely to endure given the rapid growth of telehealth clinical practice and assessment research using virtual procedures. COVID-19-related changes to assessment practices have impacted accordingly how we study overreporting scale functioning, including the modality through which
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Development and psychometric validation of the Pandemic-Related Traumatic Stress Scale for children and adults. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Courtney K Blackwell,Phillip Sherlock,Kathryn L Jackson,Julie A Hofheimer,David Cella,Molly A Algermissen,Akram N Alshawabkeh,Lyndsay A Avalos,Tracy Bastain,Clancy Blair,Michelle Bosquet Enlow,Patricia A Brennan,Carrie Breton,Nicole R Bush,Aruna Chandran,Shaina Collazo,Elisabeth Conradt,Sheila E Crowell,Sean Deoni,Amy J Elliott,Jean A Frazier,Jody M Ganiban,Diane R Gold,Julie B Herbstman,Christine
To assess the public health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health, investigators from the National Institutes of Health Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) research program developed the Pandemic-Related Traumatic Stress Scale (PTSS). Based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5) acute stress disorder symptom criteria, the PTSS
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The Epidemic-Pandemic Impacts Inventory (EPII): A multisample study examining pandemic-related experiences and their relation to mental health. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Tim Janssen,Austen B McGuire,Teresa López-Castro,Mark A Prince,Damion J Grasso
The Epidemic-Pandemic Impacts Inventory (EPII) was developed to assess pandemic-related adverse and positive experiences across several key domains, including work/employment, home life, isolation, and quarantine. Several studies have associated EPII-assessed pandemic-related experiences with a wide range of psychosocial factors, most commonly depressive and anxiety symptoms. The present study investigated
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Examining ways to score the Epidemic-Pandemic Impacts Inventory in parents of young children. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Chelsea G Ratcliff,Debbie Torres,Kennedy S Anderson,Hillary A Langley
The Epidemic-Pandemic Impacts Inventory (EPII) is a 92-item measure developed to assess tangible impacts of the pandemic including both negative (work, home, social, and health) and positive changes. The EPII has been used in a variety of studies, but a standard scoring system has not been determined. Parents of young children (N = 216) completed the EPII, Perceived Stress Scale, Parenting Stress Scale
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Clinical assessment in the time of COVID-19: Introduction to the special issue. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Jaime L Anderson,Angel Blanch,Julie A Suhr
The COVID-19 pandemic placed much of the practice of psychological assessment in unchartered territory-including assessment via telehealth, assessment with masks or other safety measures, and accounting for the impact of a major global event in measuring performance or psychopathology. The goal of this special issue was to highlight research that addresses the numerous ways in which the pandemic impacted
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Mask wearing during neuropsychological assessment negatively impacts performance on verbal tests in older patients. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Amber Thomas,Daniel Tranel
Face masks are recommended to minimize the spread of COVID-19 and are required in many health care settings. Although masks have documented health advantages, they also negatively impact communication, an essential element of clinical neuropsychological assessment. Using a large clinical data set from a major academic medical center, we investigated the effect of mask wearing on neuropsychological
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Online cognitive assessment in the era of COVID-19: Examining the validity of the MEZURE. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Stefan C Dombrowski,A Alexander Beaujean,Ryan J McGill,Ryan L Farmer
Developed more than 2 decades ago, the MEZURE (Assessment Technologies, 1995-2020; https://www.mezure.com/) has received increased attention as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the first individualized test of cognitive ability created to use an online (local or remote) assessment modality. The MEZURE claims to be aligned both with the extended Gf-Gc theory and the Cattell-Horn-Carroll model
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Assessment of psychopathy among justice-involved adult males with low versus average intelligence: Differential links to violent offending. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Esther Kim,Chenle Xu,Craig S Neumann
Psychopathic personality is a multidimensional construct (De Brito et al., 2021) and the dimensions have differential associations with general and violent offending. Impairment in cognitive functioning, particularly intelligence (IQ), is another construct linked to both general and violent offending. However, the evidence is mixed on whether the combination of elevated psychopathy and low IQ increases
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Linking the Perceived Stress Scale to the PROMIS Psychological Stress Experiences-Pediatric in adolescents. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-10-01 Maxwell Mansolf,Courtney K Blackwell,Jin-Shei Lai,David Cella
The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and PROMIS Psychological Stress Experiences-Pediatric (PPSE) are two self-report instruments that have been used with adolescents to measure subjective feelings of stress. Stress is a critical construct to evaluate, as chronic stress can result in negative long-term consequences for an individual's physical and mental health. While the PSS is more commonly used in research
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Measurement invariance of the Youth Self-Report across youth who have committed sexual and nonsexual offenses. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-10-01 Elisabeth J Leroux,Jala Rizeq,Tracey A Skilling
Justice-involved youth experience high rates of mental health problems that require proper screening and assessment in order to effectively intervene. The Youth Self-Report (YSR) is a general psychopathology rating scale that measures several dimensions of psychopathology and is commonly used in clinical assessments, including with justice-involved youth. Yet, the underlying factor structure of the
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Recovery after a suicidal episode: Developing and validating the Recovery Evaluation and Suicide Support Tool (RESST). Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-10-01 Yosef Sokol,Sofie Glatt,Chynna Levin,Patricia Tran,Chayim Rosensweig,Chana Silver,Shifra Hubner,Louis Primavera,Marianne Goodman
The personal recovery movement advocates for shifting emphasis from clinical symptom reduction toward reclaiming personal agency and creating meaning-filled lives despite the presence of distressing experiences. Corresponding personal recovery measures have been developed; however, there is no established psychometric assessment of personal recovery following a suicidal episode. This study addressed
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The Controllability of Suicidal Thoughts (CoST) Scale: Development, factor structure, and initial validation. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-10-01 Brianna Meddaoui,Bianca C Iddiols,Erin A Kaufman
Suicidal ideation (SI) is common, harmful, and distressing. Prior research suggests a person's sense of perceived control over their suicidal thoughts may be important for understanding risk level. However, no measurement tool currently exists to capture this experience. The present study seeks to establish a brief self-report instrument to assess the degree of perceived control an individual has over
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Is it time to revise the SDQ? The psychometric evaluation of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Reeta Kankaanpää,Pertti Töttö,Raija-Leena Punamäki,Kirsi Peltonen
Despite the wide use of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) to assess adolescent mental health, its psychometric functionality is still under debate. This study investigated the structural validity and reliability of the SDQ scores, and the resemblance of the SDQ sum scores and factor scores. Factor one-dimensionality and competing multifactor structures were tested against data. With
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Reassessing rumination: Validity of the Day Reconstruction Method for Rumination (DRM-R) to assess episodes of rumination in daily life. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Eve A Rosenfeld,Cassondra Lyman,Curtis M Wojcik,Kathryn S Macia,John E Roberts
Rumination is a robust vulnerability to depression and potential treatment target. However, we know relatively little about rumination in daily life. This study tested the validity of a new approach for assessing daily episodes of rumination, the Day Reconstruction Method for Rumination (DRM-R). Participants (N = 127) who were either high or low in neuroticism completed baseline self-report measures
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Development of a new measure of encounters with health care barriers: The Commonly Experienced Health Care Barriers Index. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Alannah Shelby Rivers,Keith Sanford,Morgan Brewington,Ashley Buchanan
Common barriers to health care, such as lack of insurance or transportation, hold a key theoretical role in many models attempting to explain problems with health care utilization (not seeking needed health care). However, the assessment of barriers is often post hoc, with no existing scales appropriate for a general population. This study developed and tested a new measure of commonly experienced
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Clinical utility of diagnosing limited prosocial emotions in young children using the Clinical Assessment of Prosocial Emotions (CAPE). Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Bryan Neo,Georgette E Fleming,Silvana Kaouar,Mei E Chan,Nikki N Huang,David J Hawes,Valsamma Eapen,Nancy Briggs,Eva R Kimonis
This study evaluated the interrater reliability, convergent and divergent validity, incremental validity, and clinical prognostic utility of the Clinical Assessment of Prosocial Emotions (CAPE; Frick, 2013) for assessing limited prosocial emotions (LPE). Participants were 232 young children (Mage = 3.94 years, SD = 1.46, range = 2-8; 74.6% boys) clinic-referred for conduct problems. We scored the CAPE
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I can't handle my desires: Development and validation of a self-report measure of desire intolerance and associations with distress intolerance. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Jennifer C Veilleux,Danielle E Higuera,Elise A Warner,Regina E Schreiber,Katherine Hyde Brott,Jeremy B Clift
Desire intolerance is conceptualized as a motivational counterpoint to the transdiagnostic risk factor of distress intolerance and is defined as the inability or unwillingness to "sit with" the motivation to approach a rewarding object or task. The current work describes the development and validation of a novel measure of desire intolerance. After initial item development and exploratory factor analysis
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Criminal thinking as a bipolar dimensional construct: Testing the risk-promotive status of the PICTS proactive and reactive criminal thinking scales. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Glenn D Walters
This study sought to assess whether two scales from a criminal thinking inventory displayed bipolar properties such that high scores on these scales reflect a risk effect and low scores a promotive effect. To test this hypothesis, the proactive criminal thinking (PCT) and reactive criminal thinking (RCT) scales from the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) were organized into
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The folk psychiatry model: Developing a measure of lay perceptions of PTSD. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Alexandria F Sowers,Joshua D Clapp,Scott A Freng,Kasey Stanton
Whereas existing data verify the importance of support networks in facilitating resilience following trauma, the sociocultural perceptions of posttrauma difficulties that provide context for these interactions remain largely unexplored. Folk psychiatry models propose that lay explanations of mental illness can be quantified along distinct moralizing, medicalizing, and psychologizing dimensions. The
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Measurement invariance and response consistency of single-item assessments for suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Kenneth McClure,Kerri-Anne Bell,Ross Jacobucci,Brooke A Ammerman
The present study aimed to expand the literature on single-item assessments for suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) by examining measurement invariance of commonly used single-item assessments of suicidal ideation (SI), planning (SP), and attempts (SA) with respect to race and ethnicity. Predictive invariance with respect to depression, and multi-item measures of passive and active SI were also
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A critical review of the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale-Global and Thematic Apperception Test in clinical practice and research: Psychometric limitations and ethical implications. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Samuel Justin Sinclair,Kelly E Carpenter,Kiefer D Cowie,Christopher G AhnAllen,Greg Haggerty
The Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale-Global (SCORS-G) has been used increasingly in multimethod psychological assessment contexts as a framework for eliciting personality information from narrative data collection techniques, the most popular of which is the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT). Although research on the reliability and validity of the SCORS system has evolved over the last decade
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The ecological validity of the IOP-29: A follow-up study using the MMPI-2-RF and the SIMS as criterion variables. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Paolo Roma,Luciano Giromini,Martin Sellbom,Alessandra Cardinale,Stefano Ferracuti,Cristina Mazza
Current guidelines for conducting symptom validity assessments require that professionals administer multiple symptom validity tests (SVTs) and that the SVTs selected for their evaluations provide nonredundant information. However, not many SVTs are currently available, and most of them rely on the same, (in)frequency-based, feigning detection strategy. In this context, the Inventory of Problems (IOP-29)
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Measurement invariance of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Scale-Depression within and across six diverse intervention trials. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Irina Bergenfeld,Nadine J Kaslow,Kathryn M Yount,Yuk Fai Cheong,Erin R Johnson,Cari Jo Clark
Depression, a major contributor to the global burden of disease, is an outcome of interest in clinical trials. Researchers and clinicians note that depression often presents differently across cultures, posing challenges in the accurate measurement of depressive symptoms across populations. A commonly used self-administered screening tool to measure depressive symptoms, the Center for Epidemiologic
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A proof of concept study of promotive, mixed, and risk effects using the SAVRY assessment tool items with youth with sexual offenses. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Calvin M Langton,Jennifer A Ranjit,James R Worling
There is currently a lack of consensus about the nature of strengths in forensic assessments. With 273 justice-involved male youth and a fixed 3-year follow-up, this study adopted the approach of Farrington and colleagues to investigating the nature of associations between trichotomized variables, representing risks and strengths, and outcomes using pairs of odds ratios (ORs) and percentage point changes
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Measurement invariance of the Personality Inventory for the DSM-5 (PID-5) for Nigerian and White American university students. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Charles T Orjiakor,Martin Sellbom,Jared W Keeley,R Michael Bagby
In a previous study, it was reported that the typically replicable factor structure of the Personality Inventory for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (PID-5) was noninvariant across samples of Black American and White American university students. The investigators of that study attributed this noninvariance across these two racial groups to Black American racialization
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First data and translation of the Child Attachment Interview en Español. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Amanda Venta,Cassandra Bailey,Maria Cuervo,Betsy Galicia,Olga Cerda,Ashley Bautista,Jesse Walker
The Child Attachment Interview (CAI) was designed to assess attachment representation in middle childhood-filling a gap between behavioral paradigms and adult interviews-and has demonstrated adequate psychometric properties in middle childhood and adolescence. To date, the CAI has not been available in Spanish, given the absence of an accepted translation and psychometric data. Spanish is the second
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Measurement validity of the six-factor model of psychological well-being in a military sample: Implications for measuring well-being in service members. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Benjamin Trachik,Bradley Fawver,Stephen K Trapp,Simon B Goldberg,Michelle L Ganulin,Nathan T Kearns,Ashlee B McKeon,Michael N Dretsch,Walter J Sowden
Subjective well-being is a positive psychological construct that has important implications for the U.S. Military's goal to develop service members' strengths and support their overall thriving and downstream resilience. Despite this, the concept of well-being has not been well studied in military populations who have unique work demands, stressors, and autonomy/agency in daily life compared to civilians
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Common rituals in obsessive-compulsive disorder and implications for treatment: A mixed-methods study. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Caitlin M Pinciotti,Nyssa Z Bulkes,Brenda E Bailey,Eric A Storch,Jonathan S Abramowitz,Leonardo F Fontenelle,Bradley C Riemann
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by engagement in rituals that serve to obtain certainty and prevent feared outcomes. Exposure and response prevention is most effective when rituals are resisted, yet existing self-report measures of OCD limit identification of the full range of possible rituals, and little is known about how rituals might cluster together and predict worsened severity
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The measure of empathy in early childhood: Testing the reliability, validity, and clinical utility of scores in early childhood. Psychological Assessment (IF 6.083) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Amanda B Chan,Georgette E Fleming,Silvana Kaouar,Eva R Kimonis
Empathy is a critical socioemotional skill that motivates prosocial behavior and supports the ability to respond to the emotions of others. Although accurate measurement of empathy in young children is critical for identifying and remediating empathy deficits, currently available parent-report measures of childhood empathy have several psychometric limitations. The present study tested the reliability
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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