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WISC-IV Profiles in Children with Traumatic Brain Injury: Similarities to and Differences from the WISC-III
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Allen, Daniel N.; Thaler, Nicholas S.; Donohue, Brad; Mayfield, Joan – Psychological Assessment, 2010
The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children--Fourth Edition (WISC-IV; D. Wechsler, 2003a) is often utilized to assess children with traumatic brain injury (TBI), although little information is available regarding its psychometric properties in these children. The current study examined WISC-IV performance in a sample of 61 children with TBI. As…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Head Injuries, Measures (Individuals), Brain
Evaluating the Validity of Computerized Content Analysis Programs for Identification of Emotional Expression in Cancer Narratives
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Bantum, Erin O'Carroll; Owen, Jason E. – Psychological Assessment, 2009
Psychological interventions provide linguistic data that are particularly useful for testing mechanisms of action and improving intervention methodologies. For this study, emotional expression in an Internet-based intervention for women with breast cancer (n = 63) was analyzed via rater coding and 2 computerized coding methods (Linguistic Inquiry…
Descriptors: Intervention, Computational Linguistics, Cancer, Validity
The Facial Expression Coding System (FACES): Development, Validation, and Utility
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Kring, Ann M.; Sloan, Denise M. – Psychological Assessment, 2007
This article presents information on the development and validation of the Facial Expression Coding System (FACES; A. M. Kring & D. Sloan, 1991). Grounded in a dimensional model of emotion, FACES provides information on the valence (positive, negative) of facial expressive behavior. In 5 studies, reliability and validity data from 13 diverse…
Descriptors: Patients, Psychiatry, Metabolism, Validity
MMPI--2 Code-Type Congruence of Injured Workers
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Livingston, Ronald B.; Jennings, Earl; Colotla, Victor A.; Reynolds, Cecil R.; Shercliffe, Regan J. – Psychological Assessment, 2006
In this study, the authors examined the stability of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory--2 (J. N. Butcher, W. G. Dahlstrom, J. R. Graham, A. Tellegen, & B. Kaemmer, 1989) code types in a sample of 94 injured workers with a mean test-retest interval of 21.3 months (SD = 14.1). Congruence rates for undefined code types were 34% for…
Descriptors: Congruence (Psychology), Injuries, Personality Measures, Test Reliability
Normative Tables for Calculating the WISC-III Performance and Full Scale IQs When Symbol Search Is Substituted for Coding.
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Reynolds, Cecil R.; And Others – Psychological Assessment, 1996
A. S. Kaufman (1994) recommended that clinicians substitute Symbol Search, a new subtest, for the Coding subtest when calculating Performance and Full Scale IQs on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-III. Tables are provided for accurate derivation of IQs, percentile ranks, and confidence intervals when this substitution is made. (SLD)
Descriptors: Children, Coding, Intelligence Quotient, Intelligence Tests