Abstract: The manuscript describes the construction of the German standard and short version of the EPQ-R by Eysenck and Eysenck (1991). A pilot version was administered to 2914 subjects of a large age span. A principal component analysis of the 100 items ...
Zusammenfassung: Die Bindungstheorie stellt zur Zeit einen der einflußreichsten Ansätze in der Partnerschaftsforschung dar. Um individuelle Unterschiede in den Bindungsrepräsentationen zu erfassen, liegen einige Meßinstrumente aus dem amerikanischen ...
Abstract: On the basis of available oncological research on the quality of life, this construct is defined as a general, dynamic, and global construct, and a revised version of a questionnaire for its assessment, composed of 68 items, is presented. An ...
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 ...
Gray's concepts of a Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS) and a Behavioral Approach System (BAS) are considered to be invaluable for research on biopsychological aspects of individual differences. The original BIS/BAS-scales, as developed by Carver and ...
Subjective Appropriateness of Items and the Validity of Personality QuestionnairesSummary: The present study evaluates the impact of the perceived subjective appropriateness of items on the validity of personality questionnaires. 125 participants of both ...
The Leipzig Mood Questionnaire: Test Construction, Psychometric Quality and Influence of Age, Gender and Socioeconomic Status on MoodSummary: A questionnaire was developed which comprises five mood dimensions (happiness, activity, irritability, ...
The Bielefeld Partnership-Expectations Questionnaire. An Alternative Proposal for Assessing Attachment Styles by QuestionnairesSummary: In this article an new german questionnaire assessing adult attachment-styles is proposed. Starting from the original ...
On Differentiating Shame and Guilt: Description and Validation of the German Version of the TOSCASummary: From diverse theoretical perspectives, the meaning of the emotional processes of shame and guilt is discussed with regard to the development of ...
Habitual Tendency for Situation Control and Actual Controllability of Aversive Stimuli: An Experimental Validation of the Subtest “Situation Control” of the SVFSummary: This study investigated whether Ss with high in comparison to Ss with low tendency ...
Psychometric Evaluation and Validity of the German Translation of the Aggression Questionnaire by Buss and PerrySummary: For the German translation of the aggression questionnaire (Buss & Perry, 1992) it was demonstrated, that when excluding two items ...
Validity of the German Questionnaire on Aggressive Traffic Behavior (AViS)Abstract: Results for the construct and criterion validity of the questionnaire on aggressive traffic behavior (AViS) are reported (N = 841). The studies of the construct validity ...
Development and Validation of the Measurement Scales of Coping with the Environmental Stressor “Pollution” (SEBU-S)Abstract: The article reports on the development and initial validation of a set of scales that measure coping of individuals with the ...
Abstract. This study reports on the development of a new questionnaire to measure money behaviors devised by the Financial Times (London). In all, 402 participants from diverse backgrounds, who were recruited online, completed the 29-item questionnaire. ...