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Direct linkGuy, Laura S.; Poythress, Norman G.; Douglas, Kevin S.; Skeem, Jennifer L.; Edens, John F. – Psychological Assessment, 2008
Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) is associated with suicide, violence, and risk-taking behavior and can slow response to first-line treatment for Axis I disorders. ASPD may be assessed infrequently because few efficient diagnostic tools are available. This study evaluated 2 promising self-report measures for assessing ASPD--the ASPD scale of…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Substance Abuse, Personality Assessment, Correctional Institutions
Girard, Todd A.; Christensen, Bruce K. – Psychological Assessment, 2008
The correlation between a short-form (SF) test and its full-scale (FS) counterpart is a mainstay in the evaluation of SF validity. However, in correcting for overlapping error variance in this measure, investigators have overattenuated the validity coefficient through an intuitive misapplication of P. Levy's (1967) formula. The authors of the…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Computation, Psychiatric Services, Correlation
Neal, Dan J.; Corbin, William R.; Fromme, Kim – Psychological Assessment, 2006
The Rutgers Alcohol Problem Index (RAPI; H. R. White & E. W. Labouvie, 1989) is a frequently used measure of alcohol-related consequences in adolescents and college students, but psychometric evaluations of the RAPI are limited and it has not been validated with college students. This study used item response theory (IRT) to examine the RAPI on…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, College Students, Item Response Theory, Program Validation
Evaluating the Latent Structure of the MMPI-2 F(p) Scale in a Forensic Sample: A Taxometric Analysis
Strong, David R.; Glassmire, David M.; Frederick, Richard I.; Greene, Roger L. – Psychological Assessment, 2006
P. A. Arbisi and Y. S. Ben-Porath (1995) originally proposed that the Infrequency Psychopathology scale, F(p), be used as the final step in an algorithm to determine the validity of a Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) protocol. The current study used taxometric procedures to determine the latent structure of F(p) among…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Validity, Psychopathology, Measures (Individuals)
Van der Elst, Wim; Van Boxtel, Martin P. J.; Van Breukelen, Gerard J. P.; Jolles, Jelle – Psychological Assessment, 2006
The Concept Shifting Test (CST) is a newly developed Trail Making Type test that measures concept shifting and executive functioning. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether CST performance was affected by age, gender, educational level, or handedness and to establish the normal range of test performance. The CST was…
Descriptors: Handedness, Norms, Program Validation, Adults
Brooks, Robert T.; Beard, John; Steel, Zachary – Psychological Assessment, 2006
The Kessler 10 Psychological Distress Scale (K10) is a brief 10-item questionnaire designed to measure the level of distress and severity associated with psychological symptoms in population surveys. It is being used widely, including in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Survey, and as a clinical outcome measure, although little…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Questionnaires, Community Surveys, Mental Health
