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To Sum or Not to Sum: Taxometric Analysis with Ordered Categorical Assessment Items
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Walters, Glenn D.; Ruscio, John – Psychological Assessment, 2009
Meehl's taxometric method has been shown to differentiate between categorical and dimensional data, but there are many ways to implement taxometric procedures. When analyzing the ordered categorical data typically provided by assessment instruments, summing items to form input indicators has been a popular practice for more than 20 years. A Monte…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Monte Carlo Methods, Program Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods
Clinical Assessment of Dissociative Identity Disorder among College Counseling Clients
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Levy, Benjamin; Swanson, Janine E. – Journal of College Counseling, 2008
College counseling professionals address a wide range of complex student mental health concerns. Among these, accurately identifying client presentations of dissociative identity disorder (DID) can be especially challenging because students with DID sometimes present as if they are experiencing another problem, such as a mood, anxiety, or…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Personality Problems, College Students, Counseling
Ecological Momentary Assessment of Mood Disorders and Mood Dysregulation
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Ebner-Priemer, Ulrich W.; Trull, Timothy J. – Psychological Assessment, 2009
In this review, we discuss ecological momentary assessment (EMA) studies on mood disorders and mood dysregulation, illustrating 6 major benefits of the EMA approach to clinical assessment: (a) Real-time assessments increase accuracy and minimize retrospective bias; (b) repeated assessments can reveal dynamic processes; (c) multimodal assessments…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Clinical Diagnosis, Psychological Patterns, Context Effect
A Comparison of the Validity of the Five-Factor Model (FFM) Personality Disorder Prototypes Using FFM Self-Report and Interview Measures
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Miller, Joshua D.; Bagby, R. Michael; Pilkonis, Paul A. – Psychological Assessment, 2005
Recent studies have demonstrated that personality disorders (PDs) can be assessed via a prototype-matching technique, which enables researchers and clinicians to match an individual's five-factor model (FFM) personality profile to an expert-generated prototype. The current study examined the relations between these prototype scores, using…
Descriptors: Personality, Validity, Personality Problems, Factor Analysis
Self-Report Measures of Juvenile Psychopathic Personality Traits: A Comparative Review
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Vaughn, Michael G.; Howard, Matthew O. – Journal of Emotional & Behavioral Disorders, 2005
The authors evaluated self-report instruments currently being used to assess children and adolescents with psychopathic personality traits with respect to their reliability, validity, and research utility. Comprehensive searches across multiple computerized bibliographic databases were conducted and supplemented with manual searches. A total of 30…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Personality Measures, Personality Problems, Test Validity
Commentary: What Is the Meaning and Utility of the Psychopathy Concept?
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Rutter, Michael – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2005
The concept and measurement of psychopathy in young people is discussed with respect to five key issues: (1) the respective merits of self-reports and ratings by others; (2) whether callous/unemotional (CU) features may be more appropriately tapped by physiological measures; (3) the possible utility of genetic studies; (4) the distinctiveness of…
Descriptors: Risk, Antisocial Behavior, Adolescents, Psychopathology