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 ...
A short version of the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI-25-F) for long-term prisoners in different European countriesPrisoners show considerably higher levels of psychological distress and suicidality than the general population. However, for most cases ...
Effects of computer administration on the Symptom Checklist (SCL-90-R) with a special focus on the item sequenceAbstract. Based on the revised version of the Symptom Checklist (SCL-90-R), a study was conducted involving 400 university students. (1) A ...
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-...