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 The results give evidence that the internal consistencies of the scales «Withdrawn», «Somatic Complaints», «Social ...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 ...
Abstract. This study compared the psychometric properties of two different conceptions of measures of coping. The Stressverarbeitungsfragebogen (SVF) 120 (Janke & Erdmann, 1997) and related inventories measure coping comprehensively over situations and ...
One instrument cited in the literature as an effective measure of approaches to coping is the Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WAYS; Folkman & Lazarus, 2005). This study is a reliability generalization (RG) study of the WAYS that strives to further distill ...
The Tailorshop simulation is a computer-based dynamic decision-making task in which participants lead a fictional company for 12 simulated months. The present study investigated whether the performance measure in the Tailorshop simulation is reliable and ...
Short personality questionnaires are increasingly used in research and practice, with some scales including as few as two to five items per personality domain. Despite the frequency of their use, these short scales are often criticized on the basis of ...
Using meta-analytic data, we investigated three attributes of personality scales – their readability, the average number of words per item, and whether adjectives or statements were used – to determine the effects that these qualities have on scale ...