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Hornsveld, Ruud H. J.; Muris, Peter; Kraaimaat, Floris W. – Psychological Assessment, 2011
We examined the psychometric properties of the Novaco Anger Scale--Provocation Inventory (NAS-PI, 1994 version) in Dutch violent forensic psychiatric patients and secondary vocational students. A confirmatory factor analysis of the subscale structure of the NAS was carried out, reliability was investigated, and relations were calculated between…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Personality Traits, Persuasive Discourse, Personality
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Muris, Peter; Meesters, Cor; van den Hout, Anja; Wessels, Sylvia; Franken, Ingmar; Rassin, Eric – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2007
Pain catastrophizing is generally viewed as an important cognitive factor underlying chronic pain. The present study examined personality and temperament correlates of pain catastrophizing in a sample of young adolescents (N = 132). Participants completed the Pain Catastrophizing Scale for Children, as well as scales for measuring sensitivity of…
Descriptors: Pain, Early Adolescents, Personality, Correlation
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Muris, Peter; Ollendick, Thomas H. – Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 2005
A substantial proportion of children and adolescents come to suffer from psychological disorders. This article focuses on the temperament factors that are involved in the pathogenesis of child psychopathology. It is argued that besides the reactive temperament factor of emotionality/neuroticism, the regulative process of effortful control also…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Etiology, Psychopathology, Adolescents