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Testing the Construct Validity of the Gambling Functional Assessment-Revised
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Weatherly, Jeffrey N.; Miller, Joseph C.; Terrell, Heather K. – Behavior Modification, 2011
An attempt was made to modify the Gambling Functional Assessment (GFA), which was proposed to identify four possible contingencies maintaining the respondent's gambling behavior. However, previous research found that it only identified two contingencies (i.e., positive vs. negative reinforcement), with some items cross-loading on both…
Descriptors: Evidence, Undergraduate Students, Structural Equation Models, Construct Validity
Using Descriptive Assessment in the Treatment of Bite Acceptance and Food Refusal
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Casey, Sean D.; Perrin, Christopher J.; Lesser, Aaron D.; Perrin, Stefanie H.; Casey, Cheryl L.; Reed, Gregory K. – Behavior Modification, 2009
The feeding behaviors of two children who maintained failure to thrive diagnoses and displayed food refusal are assessed in their homes. Descriptive assessments are used to identify schedules of consequence provided by each child's care providers for bite acceptance and food refusal behaviors. Assessments reveal rich schedules of praise and access…
Descriptors: Child Health, Interpersonal Relationship, Eating Habits, Positive Reinforcement
Testing the Construct Validity of Dixon and Johnson's (2007) Gambling Functional Assessment
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Miller, Joseph C.; Meier, Ellen; Muehlenkamp, Jennifer; Weatherly, Jeffrey N. – Behavior Modification, 2009
The Gambling Functional Assessment (GFA; Dixon & Johnson, 2007) is a 20-item self-report inventory identifying four potential consequences maintaining gambling behavior. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses are performed for two large, nonclinical samples of university undergraduates. For the exploratory analysis, the optimal model…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Construct Validity, Factor Structure, Functional Behavioral Assessment
An Empirical Investigation of Time-Out with and without Escape Extinction to Treat Escape-Maintained Noncompliance
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Everett, Gregory E.; Olmi, D. Joe; Edwards, Ron P.; Tingstrom, Daniel H.; Sterling-Turner, Heather E.; Christ, Theodore J. – Behavior Modification, 2007
The present study evaluates the effectiveness of two time-out (TO) procedures in reducing escape-maintained noncompliance of 4 children. Noncompliant behavioral function was established via a functional assessment (FA), including indirect and direct descriptive procedures and brief confirmatory experimental analyses. Following FA, parents were…
Descriptors: Timeout, Negative Reinforcement, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Behavior Problems
Evaluation of Extinction as a Functional Treatment for Binge Eating
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Bosch, Amanda; Miltenberger, Raymond G.; Gross, Amy; Knudson, Peter; Breitwieser, Carrie Brower – Behavior Modification, 2008
Binge eating is a serious behavior problem exhibited by individuals diagnosed with binge eating disorder and bulimia nervosa. Binge eating is thought to be maintained by automatic negative reinforcement in the form of relief from negative emotional responding. Current treatments produce only moderate abstinence, perhaps because they do not attempt…
Descriptors: Verbal Stimuli, Behavior Problems, Eating Disorders, Negative Reinforcement
Origins of Antisocial Behavior: Negative Reinforcement and Affect Dysregulation of Behavior as Socialization Mechanisms in Family Interaction.
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Snyder, James; Schrepferman, Lynn; St. Peter, Carolyn – Behavior Modification, 1997
Explores how theories concerning socialization mechanisms may be operationalized and tested. Provides a preliminary test of this strategy using 57 boys being treated for conduct problems. Results indicate that the role of both negative reinforcement and affect dysregulation play a part in the development of a child's antisocial behavior. (RJM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Aggression, Antisocial Behavior