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Streckert, Nico; Kurtz, Lara; Kajonius, Petri J. – International Journal of Testing, 2023
The Dark Factor of Personality (D) measures the latent core of antagonistic traits. The present study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Swedish version of the full (D70) and the brief (D16) versions, concerning structural validity, item information, and convergent validity. An online sample (N = 294) was analyzed using CFA (Maximum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics
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Kajonius, Petri J. – International Journal of Testing, 2017
Research is currently testing how the new maladaptive personality inventory for DSM (PID-5) and the well-established common Five-Factor Model (FFM) together can serve as an empirical and theoretical foundation for clinical psychology. The present study investigated the official short version of the PID-5 together with a common short version of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Measures, Personality Traits, Clinical Diagnosis
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Balazs, Judit; Miklosi, Monika; Kereszteny, Agnes; Hoven, Christina W.; Carli, Vladimir; Wasserman, Camilla; Apter, Alan; Bobes, Julio; Brunner, Romuald; Cosman, Doina; Cotter, Padraig; Haring, Christian; Iosue, Miriam; Kaess, Michael; Kahn, Jean-Pierre; Keeley, Helen; Marusic, Dragan; Postuvan, Vita; Resch, Franz; Saiz, Pilar A.; Sisask, Merike; Snir, Avigal; Tubiana, Alexandra; Varnik, Airi; Sarchiapone, Marco; Wasserman, Danuta – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: Subthreshold-depression and anxiety have been associated with significant impairments in adults. This study investigates the characteristics of adolescent subthreshold-depression and anxiety with a focus on suicidality, using both categorical and dimensional diagnostic models. Methods: Data were drawn from the Saving and Empowering…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), Anxiety, Psychopathology
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Schermerhorn, Alice C.; D'Onofrio, Brian M.; Turkheimer, Eric; Ganiban, Jody M.; Spotts, Erica L.; Lichtenstein, Paul; Reiss, David; Neiderhiser, Jenae M. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Research has documented associations between family functioning and offspring psychosocial adjustment, but questions remain regarding whether these associations are partly due to confounding genetic factors and other environmental factors. The current study used a genetically informed approach, the Children of Twins design, to explore the…
Descriptors: Twins, Marital Satisfaction, Conflict, Child Rearing
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Ybrandt, Helene; Armelius, Kerstin – School Psychology International, 2010
This study examined whether self-esteem mediates the association between peer aggression and internalizing and externalizing problems in adolescents. A total of 204 Swedish adolescents aged between 12- and 16-years-old completed self-report measures; self-esteem was assessed with "I think I am" (ITIA) and internalizing and externalizing…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Adolescents, Self Esteem, Peer Relationship
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Forsman, Mats; Lichtenstein, Paul; Andershed, Henrik; Larsson, Henrik – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2010
Background: Antisocial behaviour may partly develop as a consequence of psychopathic personality. However, neither the direction of effects nor the aetiology of the association has previously been clarified. The aim in this study was to investigate the direction of effects between psychopathic personality and antisocial behaviour, and to…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Antisocial Behavior, Personality, Longitudinal Studies
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Langstrom, Niklas; Grann, Martin; Ruchkin, Vladislav; Sjostedt, Gabrielle; Fazel, Seena – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2009
Little is known about risk factors for violence among individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This study uses data from Swedish longitudinal registers for all 422 individuals hospitalized with autistic disorder or Asperger syndrome during 1988-2000 and compares those committing violent or sexual offenses with those who did not. Thirty-one…
Descriptors: Autism, Asperger Syndrome, Psychopathology, At Risk Persons
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Holmqvist, Rolf – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2008
A key characteristic of psychopathy is the individual's problematic relation to certain affects, particularly shame. Previous research has studied relations between expressed shame and psychopathy. In this study, the author analyzes potential associations between psychopathy and consciousness of feelings (i.e., participants' ability to recognize…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Delinquency, Criminals, Attachment Behavior
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Shulman, Ernest – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1993
Discusses approach examining why individual did not kill himself when he could have been expected to do so. Uses approach to examine nonsuicide of Swedish playwright August Strindberg. Focuses on disjunction between Strindberg's early and later life, specifically on factors that enabled him to recover from psychotic episodes with suicidal…
Descriptors: Biographies, Decision Making, Foreign Countries, Personal Autonomy
Smith, Gudmund J. W.; Danielsson, Anna – 1977
A serial visual afterimage (AI) test was administered to 136 normal and 75 anxiety-ridden children 4-16 years of age. The scoring of the AI serials involved signs of primitive functioning (size-constant and positive AIs), anxiety (large and dark AIs together with primitive AIs in older children) and process discontinuity (intermittent regressions…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anxiety, Children, Clinical Diagnosis
Smith, Gudmund J. W.; Danielsson, Anna – 1977
An attempt to operationally define depressive retardation in 72 inpatients aged 4-16 used two percept-genetic tests. In a serial visual afterimage (AI) test retardation was defined as a successive reduction of AI size, and in a serial tachistoscopic presentation using the meta-contrast technique (MCT) it was seen as stereotyped repetitions of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anxiety, Children, Clinical Diagnosis
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Sjolund, Margareta – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1981
The Erica Method, a form of play-diagnosis and play-therapy used widely in Sweden, utilizes a standardized material that consists of sandboxes and miniature toys. The method is a very useful tool for better understanding of both developmental, neurological and psychopathological problems of childhood. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Clinical Diagnosis, Counseling Techniques
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Khalifa, Najah; Von Knorring, Anne-Liis – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2006
Objective: To examine patterns of psychiatric comorbid disorders and associated problems in a school population of children with tic disorders. Method: From a total population of 4,479 children, 25 with Tourette's disorder (TD), 34 with chronic motor tics (CMT), 24 with chronic vocal tics (CVT), and 214 with transient tics (TT) during the past…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Learning Problems, Hyperactivity, Aggression
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Gustafsson, Carina; Sonnander, Karin – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2005
Given the difficulties with symptom identification and the assessment of mental health problems in persons with intellectual disabilities (ID) there has been a focus on the development of relevant assessment schedules for persons with ID. A Swedish version of the psychopathology inventory for mentally retarded adults (PIMRA, informant version), an…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Psychopathology, Mental Retardation, Clinical Diagnosis