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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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Whitt, Ahmed; Howard, Matthew O. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2012
Objectives: The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) is widely used in juvenile justice settings; however, little is known regarding its factor structure in antisocial youth. The authors evaluated the BSI factor structure in a state residential treatment population. Methods: 707 adolescents completed the BSI. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Suicide, Factor Structure, Adolescents
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Eltz, Michael; Evans, Allison Schettini; Celio, Mark; Dyl, Jennifer; Hunt, Jeffrey; Armstrong, Laura; Spirito, Anthony – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2007
This study examined the factor structure, reliability, and validity of the Suicide Probability Scale (SPS) in a sample of 226 (80 male, 146 female) adolescent psychiatric inpatients. Confirmatory factor analyses provided only some support for the original subscales. Exploratory factor analyses revealed some overlap with the original scales, but…
Descriptors: Suicide, Factor Structure, Patients, Measures (Individuals)
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Osman, Augustine; Kopper, Beverly A; Barrios, Frank; Gutierrez, Peter M.; Bagge, Courtney L. – Psychological Assessment, 2004
This investigation was conducted to validate the Beck Depression Inventory--II (BDI-II; A. T. Beck, R. A. Steer, & G. K. Brown, 1996) in samples of adolescent psychiatric inpatients. The sample in each substudy was primarily Caucasian. In Study 1, expert raters (N=7) and adolescent psychiatric inpatients (N=13) evaluated the BDI-II items to assess…
Descriptors: Patients, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Depression (Psychology)
Kirisci, Levent; Clark, Duncan B. – 1996
The reliability and validity of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAIC) was studied with 675 adolescents aged 12 to 18 recruited from clinical and community sources. The STAIC is a self-report measure that has been widely used to assess state and trait anxiety of children. It has been suggested that the child version may be more…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anxiety, Children, Factor Structure
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Freiheit, Stacy R.; And Others – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1996
The utility of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory personality disorder scales was studied with 217 male adolescent psychiatric inpatients. Analyses of variance found patterns consistent with research on adult samples in spite of differences in factor structure. These similarities suggest that adolescent assessment may provide information…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
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Song, Li-yu; And Others – Psychological Assessment, 1994
Measurement fidelity (reliability, factor structure, and validity) of Aschenbach's Youth Self-Report scale was studied with 226 adolescents at a psychiatric hospital. Findings confirm convergent validity and reliability of four of the measure's seven narrowband syndromes, and seven meaningful subdimensions were extracted from the other three…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Measurement Techniques
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Paivio, Sandra, C.; Cramer, Kenneth, M. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2004
Objective: The aims of this study were to examine (1) the psychometric properties of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire [CTQ; Bernstein, D., Fink, L., Handelsman, L., Foote, J., Lovejoy, M., Wenzel, K., Sapareto, E., & Ruggiero, J. (1994). Initial reliability and validity of a new retrospective measure of child abuse and neglect. American…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Questionnaires, Psychometrics, Test Reliability