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Development and Preliminary Validation of a Tool for Screening Suicide Risk in Chronically Ill Women
Direct linkPederson, Cathy L.; Gorman-Ezell, Kathleen; Hochstetler Mayer, Greta; Brookings, Jeffrey B. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2021
The Suicide Screening Tool for Chronic Illness assesses suicide risk for persons with chronic, "invisible" illnesses. From an initial pool of 31 items, internal consistency, Rasch, and exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses produced a 14-item scale that is unidimensional, internally consistent, and correlated with measures of…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Screening Tests, At Risk Persons
Pingault, Jean-Baptiste; Pouga, Lydia; Grezes, Julie; Berthoz, Sylvie – Psychological Assessment, 2012
The study of endophenotypes, notably with configured self-reports, represents a promising research pathway to overcome the limits of a syndromal approach of psychiatric diseases. The Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales (ANPS) is a self-report questionnaire, based on neuroethological considerations, that could help to assess emotional…
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Questionnaires, Psychological Patterns, Psychometrics
Fisher, Lauren B.; Overholser, James C. – Death Studies, 2013
Despite its high sensitivity, the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) has demonstrated low specificity, has an ambiguous factor structure, and includes inadequate items. The current study examined the psychometric properties of a modified BHS (mBHS) using a Likert scale format that would allow for improved reliability, validity, and clinical utility.…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Likert Scales, Depression (Psychology), Undergraduate Students
Hewitt, Paul L.; Blasberg, Jonathan S.; Flett, Gordon L.; Besser, Avi; Sherry, Simon B.; Caelian, Carmen; Papsdorf, Michael; Cassels, Tracy G.; Birch, Susan – Psychological Assessment, 2011
Research on adults indicates that perfectionistic self-presentation, the interpersonal expression of one's perfection, is associated with a variety of psychopathological outcomes independent of trait perfectionism and Big Five traits. The current article reports on the development and evidence for the validity of the subtest score interpretations…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Social Desirability, Test Validity, Adolescents
Ailey, Sarah H. – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2009
This study describes the validity and the sensitivity and specificity of depression screening tools among adults with intellectual and disabilities (ID). Subjects (N = 75) were interviewed with the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II) and the Glasgow Depression Scale for People with a Learning Disability (GDS-LD) and also completed a clinical…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Learning Disabilities, Developmental Disabilities, Depression (Psychology)
Peer reviewedPulos, Steven – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1996
The factor structure of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) was studied with a subsample of 93 bulimic women from a total sample of 110 women with eating disorders. Results suggested that the BDI appears to assess a unidimensional construct in patients with eating disorders. (SLD)
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Eating Disorders, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
Stice, Eric; Bohon, Cara; Marti, C. Nathan; Fischer, Kathryn – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2008
Studies have found that individuals with bulimia nervosa can be classified into dietary and dietary-negative affect subtypes and that the latter exhibit greater eating pathology, psychiatric comorbidity, and functional impairment; a more protracted clinical course; and a worse treatment response. In this report, the authors describe 2 prospective…
Descriptors: Females, Eating Disorders, Predictive Validity, Pathology
PDF pending restorationFunabiki, Dean; And Others – 1981
Research directed toward examining clinical depression among college students requires valid criterion measures for identifying depressed individuals. The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the most widely-used self-report screening instrument for identifying depressed college students, has been criticized for its heavy emphasis on cognitive items…
Descriptors: Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Processes
