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Oliveira, 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
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Aghebati, Asma; Javaherirenani, Razieh; Amin, Razieh; Pazhooyan, Mahdiye; Farahani, Hojjatollah; Ahadianfard, Pantea – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Purpose: This study explores the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Child and Youth Resilience Measure--Revised (CYRM-R) in adolescent population. Method: A sample of 323 Iranian adolescents (12-18 years old) completed the CYRM-R, Resilient Scale (RS), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II), and Mental Health Continuum Short Form…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Translation, Indo European Languages, Resilience (Psychology)
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Pederson, Cathy L.; Gorman-Ezell, Kathleen; Hochstetler Mayer, Greta; Brookings, Jeffrey B. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2021
The Suicide Screening Tool for Chronic Illness assesses suicide risk for persons with chronic, "invisible" illnesses. From an initial pool of 31 items, internal consistency, Rasch, and exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses produced a 14-item scale that is unidimensional, internally consistent, and correlated with measures of…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Screening Tests, At Risk Persons
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Chow, Peter; Chalmers, R. Philip; Flynn, Deborah M.; McLandress, Adam J.; Steadman, Victoria G. L. – College Student Journal, 2018
With the intent of amending the 21-item BDI-II to improve its reliability and validity when administering the scale to nonclinical populations, a survey package consisting of 19 positive items with semantically reflected response options to mirror the negative scenario options in the original BDI-II (excluding items 16 and 18) was created. These…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Measures (Individuals), Test Reliability, Test Validity
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Yildirim, Abdullah; Boysan, Murat; Kefeli, Mehmet Celal – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2018
The study examined the psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the DASS-21. Thirty patients with major depression and 30 patients with anxiety disorders and 250 health controls participated in the study. We tested six alternative models using CFA. We found that tripartite model comprised of anhedonia and physiological hyperarousal along…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Reliability, Turkish, Correlation
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Rickert, Nicolette P.; Skinner, Ellen A.; Roeser, Robert W. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2020
In response to growing interest in mindfulness as a support for educators, the current study sought to create and test a new multidimensional and multi-informant measure of teacher mindfulness in the classroom. To counter some of the limitations of context-general self-reports, we designed two theoretically based classroom-specific measures that…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Teacher Behavior
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Alvelo, Jaime; Cancio-Gonzalez, Rafael E.; Collazo, Andrés – Research on Social Work Practice, 2018
Purpose: This study was intended to adapt into Spanish and validate the short form of the Marwit-Meuser Caregiver Grief Inventory (MMCGI), an instrument for the assessment of levels of grief in caregivers of patients with dementia. Method: The adaptation was based on the cross-cultural equivalence model that included forward and backward…
Descriptors: Validity, Semantics, Factor Structure, Puerto Ricans
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Erford, Bradley T.; Johnson, Erin; Bardoshi, Gerta – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2016
This meta-analysis reviewed 144 studies from 1996 to 2013 using the Beck Depression Inventory-Second Edition. Internal consistency was 0.89 and test-retest reliability 0.75. Convergent comparisons were robust across 43 depression instruments. Structural validity supported both one- and two-factor solutions and diagnostic accuracy varied according…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Depression (Psychology), Meta Analysis, Reliability
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Renshaw, Tyler L.; Cook, Clayton R. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2018
The present studies report on the initial development and validation of the Youth Internalizing Problems Screener (YIPS), which is a 10-item self-report rating scale for assessing general internalizing problems and identifying depression and anxiety caseness within the context of school mental health screening. Results from Study 1 (N = 177)…
Descriptors: Scores, Screening Tests, Well Being, Mental Health
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Ranta, Klaus; Junttila, Niina; Laakkonen, Eero; Uhmavaara, Anni; La Greca, Annette M.; Niemi, Paivi M. – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2012
The aim of this study was to investigate symptoms of social anxiety and the psychometric properties of the "Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents" (SAS-A) among Finnish adolescents, 13-16 years of age. Study 1 (n = 867) examined the distribution of SAS-A scores according to gender and age, and the internal consistency and factor structure…
Descriptors: Evidence, Anxiety Disorders, Test Validity, Factor Structure
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Boujut, Emile – College Student Journal, 2013
Students is a very specific population according to their manner to cope with stress. A coping questionnaire for students was developed and administered to 1100 French students at the beginning of the term (T1). Principal Component Analysis of responses, followed by varimax rotations, yielded three factors accounting for 50.5% of the total…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Coping, College Students
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Hall, Brian J.; Hood, Megan M.; Nackers, Lisa M.; Azarbad, Leila; Ivan, Iulia; Corsica, Joyce – Psychological Assessment, 2013
Screening for depression is an integral part of psychological evaluations conducted prior to bariatric surgery. The Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) is the most commonly used measure of depression in these treatment evaluations. The reliability and validity of the BDI-II has not yet been evaluated within bariatric surgery-seeking samples,…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Surgery, Depression (Psychology), Patients
Zhang, Chun-Qing; Chung, Pak-Kwong; Si, Gangyan; Liu, Jing Dong – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2014
The purpose of the present study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II) across two samples of Chinese college students (n = 183 and n = 366) and a sample of elite Chinese athletes (n = 330). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses supported the existence of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Psychometrics, Test Validity
Ahn, Christine M.; Ebesutani, Chad; Kamphaus, Randy W. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2014
The present study was the first to examine the psychometric properties of the Korean version of the Behavior Assessment System for Children-2, Self-Report of Personality, College Version (K-BASC-2 SRP-COL), among a Korean national sample. Using 1,000 Korean college students, ages 18 to 25 years, we found support for the reliability (via internal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Behavior Rating Scales, Personality Measures, College Students
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Brouwer, Danny; Meijer, Rob R.; Zevalkink, Jolien – Psychological Assessment, 2013
The Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II; Beck, Steer, & Brown, 1996) is intended to measure severity of depression, and because items represent a broad range of depressive symptoms, some multidimensionality exists. In recent factor-analytic studies, there has been a debate about whether the BDI-II can be considered as one scale or whether…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Depression (Psychology), Factor Structure, Severity (of Disability)
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