Abstract: We conducted a secondary analysis to evaluate two glare items versus a composite score from the two items in a sample of 544 patients (38% women; Mdn = 29 years old; 13% high school education or less) before and after eye ...
Abstract: The German version of the Youth Self-Report (YSR) was administered to a nonclinical sample of 352 adolescents aged 12 to 16. The results give evidence that the internal consistencies of the scales «Withdrawn», «Somatic Complaints», «Social ...
Abstract: Coping with disease is an important construct in modern medical psychological investigations. Considering responses of 210 visually handicapped patients to the 45-item version of the German Essener Coping Questionnaire (EFK), the present study ...
This paper gives an overview of the development and the psychometric properties of a questionnaire for the assessment of empathy. This scale was developed through factor analysis from an amount of items from corresponding English tests, which have been ...
Summary: SCL-90-R (Derogatis, 1977; Franke, 1995) is a commonly used checklist for the assessment of current psychological distress in both scientific and clinical work. Although it has been used among adolescents in English speaking countries, ...
Zusammenfassung: Bei einer Stichprobe von 246 Personen, deren Anwerbung stratifiziert nach Geschlecht und Alter erfolgte, wurde der SVF78, eine Kurzvariante des SVF120 von Janke und Erdmann (1997), hinsichtlich seiner Reliabilität und internen Validität ...
Reliability and Validity of the German Coping Questionnaire for Children and AdolescentsSummary: Coping styles are assessed by the German Coping Questionnaire for children and adolescents (SVF-KJ) aged between 8 and 13 years. Five stress reducing and ...
Investigation of a German Version of Campbell's Self-Concept Clarity ScaleSummary: A German version of the self-concept clarity scale developed by Campbell et al. (1996) was investigated concerning its factor structure, reliability and validity. In all ...
The German Version of the Arnett Inventory of Sensation Seeking (AISS): Psychometric Properties, Reliability and ValidityAbstract: In order to avoid the limitations inherent to the well known Sensation Seeking Scale - Form Five (SSS-V) by Zuckerman et ...
Is the Negative Priming Effect a Reliable Measure of Individual Differences in Cognitive Inhibition?Summary: In cognitive psychology negative priming (NP) experiments were developed to assess inhibitory functions. NP, defined as a slowed reaction on ...
Assessing the Quality of Life Among Dementia: The Psychometric Quality of Self-Report ScalesSummary: Self-report questionnaires are used to measure quality of life. Its application is discussed controversially to investigate persons with cognitive ...
The objective of this study was to evaluate the reliability of a self-administered postal questionnaire on the use of food supplements. The study was carried out in subjects representative of an Italian adult population. Eight thousand eight hundred ...
Abstract.Background: While models of addictive behaviour stress the role of an impairment of response inhibition when drug-dependent individuals are confronted with drug-associated stimuli, results from different studies are conflicting. However, there ...
Emotion Regulation in Learning Contexts: Development of a Questionnaire Measuring Emotion Regulation During Math LearningAbstract. This paper describes the development of a questionnaire measuring the regulation of positive and negative emotions during ...
The Analysis of Learning Environments: Approaches to Determine the Reliability and Agreement of Student RatingsAbstract. The majority of studies in educational research rely on student ratings to assess characteristics of the learning environment. At the ...
Time-Saving and Reliable Diagnostics in Measuring Professional Problem-Solving Competence in the Domain of Car MechatronicsThe aim of this article is to overcome the challenge often associated with the ...
Interrater reliability and concurrent validity of 4AT for the detection of postoperative delirium: A prospective cohort studyAbstract.Background: Numerous tools for detecting postoperative delirium are available. Guidelines ...
Daten zur Retest-Stabilität von sechs Untertests der „Testbatterie zur Aufmerksamkeitsprüfung für Kinder” (KITAP) wurden an einer klinisch-sozialpädiatrischen Stichprobe von 64 sechs- bis siebenjährigen Kindern über ein Retestintervall von 14 – 28 Tagen ...
Development of Three Alternate Forms for the Assessment of Alternating Phonemic and Semantic Verbal FluencyA variety of psychiatric disorders are accompanied by pronounced executive dysfunctions. Verbal fluency tests are often used to assess these ...