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Walg, Marco; Löwer, Florentine; Bender, Stephan; Hapfelmeier, Gerhard – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2022
The aim of this study is to assess adolescent refugees' psychological distress and examine how reliably caseworkers can assess distress through a proxy-report instrument. The distress of 102 unaccompanied refugees between 16 and 21 years of age housed in youth welfare accommodations in Germany was assessed by self-report using the Brief Symptom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Young Adults, Refugees
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Smithyman, Thomas F.; Fireman, Gary D.; Asher, Yvonne – School Psychology Quarterly, 2014
Prior research has demonstrated that victims of peer victimization show reduced psychological adjustment, social adjustment, and physical well-being compared with nonvictims. However, little research has addressed whether this maladjustment continues over the long term. This study examined adjustment in 72 high school students who had participated…
Descriptors: Peer Groups, Victims, Bullying, Comparative Analysis
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Scott, Teresa J. Linares; Short, Elizabeth J.; Singer, Lynn T.; Russ, Sandra W.; Minnes, Sonia – Assessment, 2006
The reliability and validity of the Dominic Interactive (DI) assessment were evaluated. The DI is a computerized self-report measure for children, which assesses symptom presence for seven DSM-IV diagnoses. The participants were 322 children (169 cocaine exposed, 153 noncocaine exposed) who were recruited at birth for a prospective longitudinal…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Child Behavior, Rating Scales, Cocaine
Baker, David B. – 1989
A preliminary study examined the interrater reliability, factor structure, and convergent validity of the Haak Sentence Completion (in which the respondent is given a sentence stem and asked to provide the remainder of the sentence) using a three-point scoring system. The subjects were 100 boys ranging in age from 6 to 11 years who were randomly…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Emotional Disturbances
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McConaughy, Stephanie H. – School Psychology Review, 1985
The usefulness of four standardized rating scales in assessing student behavior problems is discussed: the Child Behavior Checklist (completed by parents); the Teacher Report Form; the Direct Observation Form; and the Youth Self Report. Four case studies illustrate the use of these checklists in school-based assessment. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Behavior Rating Scales, Case Studies, Classroom Observation Techniques
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Henry, David B. – Assessment, 2006
This study evaluates the validity of two aggression scales for predicting observations of malicious or disruptive behavior at school. Subgroups of a sample of 1,560 children (age 8.6 plus or minus 1.5 years) were assessed using (a) peer nominations of aggression, (b) teacher reports on the Teacher Report Form (TRF) of the Child Behavior Checklist…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Observation, Aggression, Children