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Peer reviewedMorris, Louis A.; Shapiro, Arthur K. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1974
MMPI values were used to find the relationship of field dependency to personality traits and styles of pathological adjustment in psychiatric outpatients. The investigation had separate analyses for the patient's sex and found it an important variable in predicting the relationship between test score and dependency and adjustment. (ED)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Patients, Personality Measures, Predictive Validity
Peer reviewedBlack, Leora; Piercy, Fred P. – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1991
Reports on development and psychometric properties of Feminist Family Therapy Scale (FFTS), a 17-item instrument intended to reflect degree to which family therapists conceptualize process of family therapy from feminist-informed perspective. Found that the instrument discriminated between self-identified feminists and nonfeminists, women and men,…
Descriptors: Family Counseling, Feminism, Psychological Testing, Psychometrics
Peer reviewedWatson, Janine E.; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1988
The self-report and a modified informant version of the Psychopathology Instrument for Mentally Retarded Adults (PIMRA) was used to assess 160 mentally retarded adults. Significant relationships between PIMRA scores and age, sex, and level of retardation were found. (DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Psychology
Peer reviewedHewitt, Paul L.; Norton, G. Ron – Psychological Assessment, 1993
Information on the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) was obtained for psychometric properties, gender differences, and relation to depression for 291 psychiatric patients with a subsample of 251 who completed the Beck Depression Inventory. Two demonstrated BAI factors are discussed, as are male-female differences and correlation with depression. (SLD)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Comparative Testing, Correlation, Depression (Psychology)
Download full textByrne, Barbara M.; And Others – 1992
A study of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) was conducted to: (1) test for the factorial validity of the French version of the BDI (BDI-FR) separately for 551 non-clinical Francophone adolescent males and 601 non-clinical Francophone adolescent females; (2) cross-validate findings across a second independent sample for each sex; and (3) test…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), Diagnostic Tests, Factor Structure
Billingham, Katherine A.; And Others – 1981
Research has recognized that anxiety may exert a debilitating effect on students' academic performance; however, many studies of test anxiety have been limited by their failure to consider sex differences. Two studies were conducted to analyze sex differences of the Test Anxiety Scale (TAS) and achievement correlates and to validate a factor…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Achievement Tests, College Students
Hampton, Nan Zhang – 1999
This study explores the applicability of the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale (CDMSE) to Chinese college students. The reliability and validity of the scale are examined using two independent samples (128 students from a polytechnic institute and 157 students from a teacher's college in China). The results indicate that the CDMSE is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Career Choice, Career Development
