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Direct linkOliveira, João Tiago; Faustino, Divo; Freitas, Fátima; Gonçalves, Miguel M.; Ribeiro, Eugénia; Gonçalves, Sónia; Machado, Paulo P. P. – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2023
Worry is a phenomenon that is present in multiple psychopathologies. Given the widely accepted transdiagnostic role that worry plays in psychopathology, reliable measures for this construct are pivotal for clinical practice. The Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) is one of the most widely used and established measures of worry in both clinical…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Questionnaires, Emotional Disturbances, Test Validity
Download full textByrne, Stephen; Makol, Bridget A.; Keeley, Lauren M.; De Los Reyes, Andres – Grantee Submission, 2019
Among individuals experiencing internalizing psychopathology, high levels of emotion reactivity--the degree to which they experience emotions strongly or intensely, over extended periods of time, and as elicited by a variety of stimuli--increase risk for self-injurious thoughts and behaviors. Researchers developed the Emotion Reactivity Scale…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Screening Tests, Psychometrics, Emotional Response
Fergus, Thomas A.; Valentiner, David P.; Gillen, Michael J.; Hiraoka, Regina; Twohig, Michael P.; Abramowitz, Jonathan S.; McGrath, Patrick B. – Psychological Assessment, 2012
The current study examined whether the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth (AFQ-Y; L. A. Greco, W. Lambert, & R. A. Baer, 2008), a self-report measure of psychological inflexibility for children and adolescents, might be useful for measuring psychological inflexibility for adults. The psychometric properties of the AFQ-Y were examined…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Psychological Testing, Psychometrics, Adults
Ailey, Sarah H. – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2009
This study describes the validity and the sensitivity and specificity of depression screening tools among adults with intellectual and disabilities (ID). Subjects (N = 75) were interviewed with the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II) and the Glasgow Depression Scale for People with a Learning Disability (GDS-LD) and also completed a clinical…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Learning Disabilities, Developmental Disabilities, Depression (Psychology)
Peer reviewedOliver, J. M.; Simmons, M. E. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1984
Examined the relation between diagnosis of depression made by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) derived from the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) in an unselected adult population (N=298). Results indicated similar rates of depression with DSM-III and BDI criteria. (LLL)
Descriptors: Adults, Clinical Diagnosis, Depression (Psychology), Test Validity
Concurrent Validity of Diagnostic Intake Measures: Their Relationship to Client Presenting Problems.
Hutchinson, Roger L. – 1992
The concurrent validity and discriminant validity of 3 widely used measures of psychological functioning were evaluated using a large, heterogeneous sample of 188 male and 337 female adult community residents (aged 16-66 years) seeking counseling services at a midwestern university training clinic. Validity was assessed as the relationship between…
Descriptors: Adults, Clinical Diagnosis, Comparative Testing, Concurrent Validity
