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Kimonis, Eva R.; Branch, Jessica; Hagman, Brett; Graham, Nicole; Miller, Cailey – Psychological Assessment, 2013
In the present study, the psychometric properties and factor structure of the 24-item Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits (ICU) were tested in a sample of 687 college students. Results support a similar 3-factor structure to that identified in samples of youths, in whom this measure was previously validated. Correlations with external…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Validity, Personality Traits, Personality Problems
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Calabrese, William R.; Rudick, Monica M.; Simms, Leonard J.; Clark, Lee Anna – Psychological Assessment, 2012
Recently, integrative, hierarchical models of personality and personality disorder (PD)--such as the Big Three, Big Four, and Big Five trait models--have gained support as a unifying dimensional framework for describing PD. However, no measures to date can simultaneously represent each of these potentially interesting levels of the personality…
Descriptors: Validity, Adjustment (to Environment), Personality Traits, Personality Problems
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Teglasi, Hedwig; Nebbergall, Allison Joan; Newman, Daniel – Psychological Assessment, 2012
Clinical assessment relies on both "construct validity", which focuses on the accuracy of conclusions about a psychological phenomenon drawn from responses to a measure, and "case validity", which focuses on the synthesis of the full range of psychological phenomena pertaining to the concern or question at hand. Whereas construct validity is…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Validity, Psychological Evaluation, Personality
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Lester, Whitney S.; Salekin, Randall T.; Sellbom, Martin – Psychological Assessment, 2013
This study examined the factor structure, external correlates, and predictive utility of the Self-Report Psychopathy scale (SRP-II; Hare, Harpur, & Hemphill, 1989). Despite a revision of the SRP-II to address, among other criticisms, a lack of items reflecting antisocial behavior, we hypothesized that the SRP-II would have a conceptually coherent…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Personality Traits, Undergraduate Students, Factor Structure
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Lanyon, Richard I.; Thomas, Michael L. – Psychological Assessment, 2013
The 3 Higher Order (HO) scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 Restructured Form and the 3 core clinical scales of the Psychological Screening Inventory/Psychological Screening Inventory-2 were developed to broadly represent the 3 traditional psychiatric categories of mental disorder: major psychiatric disorder…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Validity, Personality Measures, Mental Disorders
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Harkness, Allan R.; Finn, Jacob A.; McNulty, John L.; Shields, Susan M. – Psychological Assessment, 2012
The Personality Psychopathology-Five (PSY-5; Harkness & McNulty, 1994) is a model of individual differences relevant to adaptive functioning in both clinical and non-clinical populations. In this article, we review the development of the PSY-5 model (Harkness, 1992; Harkness & McNulty, 1994) and discuss the ways in which the PSY-5 model is…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Adolescents, Mental Disorders, Personality Traits
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Steinberg, Lynne; Sharp, Carla; Stanford, Matthew S.; Tharp, Andra Teten – Psychological Assessment, 2013
The Barratt Impulsivity Scale (BIS), a 30-item self-report measure, is one of the most commonly used scales for the assessment of the personality construct of impulsiveness. It has recently marked 50 years of use in research and clinical settings. The current BIS-11 is held to measure 3 theoretical subtraits, namely, attentional, motor, and…
Descriptors: Conceptual Tempo, Personality Measures, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis
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Waiyavutti, Chakadee; Johnson, Wendy; Deary, Ian J. – Psychological Assessment, 2012
Intelligence differences might contribute to true differences in personality traits. It is also possible that intelligence might contribute to differences in understanding and interpreting personality items. Previous studies have not distinguished clearly between these possibilities. Before it can be accepted that scale score differences actually…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Personality Traits, Item Response Theory, Measures (Individuals)
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Forbey, Johnathan D.; Ben-Porath, Yossef S.; Arbisi, Paul A. – Psychological Assessment, 2012
The ability to screen quickly and thoroughly for psychological difficulties in existing and returning combat veterans who are seeking treatment for physical ailments would be of significant benefit. In the current study, item and time savings, as well as extratest correlations, associated with an audio-augmented version of the computerized…
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Personality, Veterans, Patients
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Resendes, John; Lecci, Len – Psychological Assessment, 2012
MMPI-2 scores from a parent competency sample (N = 136 parents) are compared with a previously published data set of MMPI-2 scores for child custody litigants (N = 508 parents; Bathurst et al., 1997). Independent samples t tests yielded significant and in some cases substantial differences on the standard MMPI-2 clinical scales (especially Scales…
Descriptors: Child Custody, Reference Groups, Scores, Comparative Analysis
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Gibbons, Peter; Collins, Marjorie; Reid, Corinne – Psychological Assessment, 2011
There has been considerable debate about profiling personality pathology when assessing and treating male perpetrators of domestic violence (DV). This study used the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-III) to explore the severity and diversity of male perpetrator personality pathology and response bias in a group of DV perpetrators being…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Family Violence, Mental Disorders, Psychopathology
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Gagne, Jeffrey R.; Van Hulle, Carol A.; Aksan, Nazan; Essex, Marilyn J.; Goldsmith, H. Hill – Psychological Assessment, 2011
The authors describe the development and initial validation of a home-based version of the Laboratory Temperament Assessment Battery (Lab-TAB), which was designed to assess childhood temperament with a comprehensive series of emotion-eliciting behavioral episodes. This article provides researchers with general guidelines for assessing specific…
Descriptors: Personality, Child Behavior, Psychological Patterns, Preschool Children
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O'Meara, Aisling; Davies, Jason; Hammond, Sean – Psychological Assessment, 2011
Sadistic personality disorder (SPD) has been underresearched and often misunderstood in forensic settings. Furthermore, personality disorders in general are the subject of much controversy in terms of their classification (i.e., whether they should be categorical or dimensional). The Sadistic Attitudes and Behaviors Scale (SABS; Davies & Hand,…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Construct Validity, Personality Measures, Measures (Individuals)
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Ellison, William D.; Levy, Kenneth N. – Psychological Assessment, 2012
Using exploratory structural equation modeling and multiple regression, we examined the factor structure and criterion relations of the primary scales of the Inventory of Personality Organization (IPO; Kernberg & Clarkin, 1995) in a nonclinical sample. Participants (N = 1,260) completed the IPO and measures of self-concept clarity, defenses,…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Personality Measures, Test Validity, Structural Equation Models
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Miller, Joshua D.; Few, Lauren R.; Seibert, L. Alana; Watts, Ashley; Zeichner, Amos; Lynam, Donald R. – Psychological Assessment, 2012
Given substantial interest in the traits conceived of as part of the "Dark Triad"--psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism--assessment of these traits is of great importance. The Dirty Dozen (DD; Jonason & Webster, 2010) is a brief measure of the Dark Triad constructs that uses 4 items to assess each of these constructs. In the present…
Descriptors: Barriers, College Students, Measures (Individuals), Psychopathology
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