Summary: Personal optimism represents the positive expectations concerning one's own person whereas social optimism includes the expectations concerning the person's environment. Items for the assessment of personal and social optimism were submitted to ...
Zusammenfassung: Für manche Fragebogen sind Items formulierbar, die logischerweise den Kern jenes Konzepts erfassen, das mit dem Test erfaßt werden soll. Meistens können nicht alle Items einer Testrohform einen gleich hohen Grad an logischer oder ...
Psychometric Analyses of Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test Data from Chronic Multiple Handicapped AlcoholicsAbstract: A sample of 120 chronic alcoholic patients with multiple impairments was assessed with the Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test and with ...
Longitudinal Psychometric Analyses of the German Short Form of the Abbreviated Dyadic Adjustment Scale (ADAS). Results on Stability and ValidityAbstract: Short diagnostic instruments to assess the relationship quality are necessary ...
Psychometric analysis of the German Dyadic Adjustment ScaleAbstract. The Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) is the most widely used measure for the assessment of relationship quality internationally. A German version of the DAS exists, but knowledge regarding ...
Psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) in alcoholicsAbstract.Background: The assessment of depression severity in alcoholics is potentially confounded because alcohol, acute intoxication or ...
Short version of the tinnitus questionnaire of Goebel and Hiller (1998)Abstract.Background: The tinnitus questionnaire of Goebel and Hiller (1998) measures the impairment due to tinnitus with six partially correlating factors. These are based, among ...
Summary: Vocabulary tests, part of most test batteries of general intellectual ability, measure both verbal and general ability. Newly developed techniques for confirmatory factor analysis of dichotomous variables make it possible to analyze the influence ...
This investigation was concerned with the widely spread practice to extract subscales from extensive psychodiagnostic inventories and to present their items in questionnaires as homogeneous item-blocks. By way of examining the effects of the mode of item-...
Gauguin (Grouping And Using Glyphs Uncovering Individual Nuances) is statistical data visualization software for the interactive graphical exploration of multivariate data using glyph representations. Glyphs are defined as geometric shapes scaled by the ...