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Manos, Rachel C.; Kanter, Jonathan W.; Luo, Wen – Behavior Therapy, 2011
Following a landmark component analysis of cognitive therapy by Jacobson and colleagues (1996), there has been renewed interest in behavioral activation (BA) treatments for depression. The Behavioral Activation for Depression Scale (BADS) was developed to measure when and how clients become activated over the course of BA treatment. Multiple…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Predictive Validity, Cognitive Restructuring, Measures (Individuals)
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Muris, Peter; Huijding, Jorg; Mayer, Birgit; Langkamp, Marit; Reyhan, Ela; Olatunji, Bunmi – Behavior Therapy, 2012
The present study examined the psychometric properties of the Disgust Emotion Scale for Children (DES-C). Principal components analysis of the DES-C data revealed five factors reflecting disgust toward (a) rotting foods, (b) injection and blood, (c) odors, (d) mutilation and death, and (e) animals, which were largely in keeping with the intended…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Measures (Individuals), Anxiety, Etiology
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Rhule, Dana M.; McMahon, Robert J.; Vando, Jessica – Behavior Therapy, 2009
Analogue behavioral observation of structured parent-child interactions has often been used to obtain a standardized, unbiased measure of child noncompliance and parenting behavior. However, for assessment information to be clinically relevant, it is essential that the behavior observed be similar to that which the child normally experiences and…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Behavior Problems, Mothers, Validity
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Foa, Edna B.; Coles, Meredith; Huppert, Jonathan D.; Pasupuleti, Radhika V.; Franklin, Martin E.; March, John – Behavior Therapy, 2010
Surprisingly, only 3 self-report measures that directly assess pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) have been developed. In addition, these scales have typically been developed in small samples and fail to provide a quick assessment of symptoms across multiple domains. Therefore, the current paper presents initial psychometric data for a…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Test Construction, Test Validity, Psychometrics
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Olatunji, Bunmi O.; Deacon, Brett J.; Abramowitz, Jonathan S.; Valentiner, David P. – Behavior Therapy, 2007
The Body Vigilance Scale (BVS) is a measure developed to assess one's conscious attendance to internal cues. The present report investigated the structure, correlates, and predictive utility of the BVS in nonclinical (N=442) and anxiety (N=135) disorder samples. The findings of Study 1 suggest that the BVS is 1-dimensional in a nonclinical sample,…
Descriptors: Cues, Factor Structure, Patients, Anxiety
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Abramowitz, Jonathan S.; Olatunji, Bunmi O.; Deacon, Brett J. – Behavior Therapy, 2007
Although clinical observations suggest that health-related anxiety is present, to some extent, in a number of anxiety disorders, this relationship has not been examined empirically. The present study therefore utilized the Short Health Anxiety Inventory (SHAI) to elucidate the structure of such symptoms among patients with anxiety disorders and to…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Anxiety, Psychological Patterns, Physical Health