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 ...
The Risk Potential of Various Types of Gambling: Results of a Delphi Study and Empirical Validation of Assessment CriteriaAims: The study aims at generating and validating assessment criteria based on different characteristics of gambling types, in order ...
External Validation of a Single-Item Scale to Measure Motivation to Stop Smoking: Findings from a Representative Population Survey (DEBRA Study)Abstract.Aims: The Motivation to Stop Scale (MTSS) is a single-item ...
The TE4D - Test for the Early Detection of Dementia with Discrimination from DepressionSummary: Despite the high relevance of dementia, its early detection by general practitioners is still insufficient. In this situation psychometric screening tests may ...
Weight phobia in patients with Anorexia nervosa – development of a questionnaireAnxiety plays a comprehensive role in the psychopathology of anorexic patients and the long-term course of the disorder. Despite the importance of the major symptom: weight ...
Emotions“Affective and Social Neuroscience” is a focus in recent research on emotions which has several implications for psychiatry, psychology and psychotherapy. Adequate research designs have to be established to serve as “paradigms” within studies ...
Validity of cannabis-related diagnoses in addiction counselling centres<span class="fett">Background:</span> Making diagnoses in outpatient counselling centres has been questioned repeatedly. For this reason, the validity of cannabis-related diagnoses (...
Development of a Self-assessment Scale for the Alcohol Withdrawal
Syndrome (ESA, Essen Self-Assessment-Alcohol Withdrawal)Aims: So far, for the evaluation of the alcohol withdrawal treatment, subjective complaints of patients during acute alcohol ...
Zusammenfassung. Die Erfassung von Psychotherapiemotivation kann in der Grundlagenforschung, in Interventionsstudien, im Rahmen der Bedarfsplanung und der therapeutischen Praxis indiziert sein. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, eine auf 23 Items verkürzte ...
Zusammenfassung. Es wird untersucht, ob die übliche Vorgehensweise bei der Validierung von Einstellungsinterviews zu einer Unterschätzung der Validität führt, und ob die alternative Vorgehensweise nach Dreher, Ash und Hancock (1988), die eine ...
Zusammenfassung. In diesem Beitrag wird die Trierer Kurzskala zur Messung von Work-Life Balance vorgestellt. Sie ermöglicht eine globale, richtungsfreie und in ihrem Aufwand ökonomische Möglichkeit zur Erfassung von Work-Life Balance. Die Struktur der ...
Validation of the Turkish version of the Screening for Somatoform Disorders (SOMS)Turkish migrants use psychotherapeutic services mostly due to somatoform symptoms. For better objectification of those symptoms the screening for somatoform disorders (SOMS)...
Validity of a German 16-item version of the Inventory of Personality Organization (IPO-16)This paper introduces a German short form of the Inventory of Personality Organization (IPO-16). The IPO long form is a self-report instrument for the assessment of ...
Fear of Positive Evaluation: Translation and Validation of a German Version of the FPESAbstract. Recent research suggests that besides the fear of negative evaluation (FNE), fear of positive evaluation (FPE) also plays an important role in social anxiety ...
Translation of the Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale–Revised (BFNE-R) and Validation of the German Version (FNE-K)Abstract. A central diagnostic criterion of social anxiety disorder is the fear of negative social evaluation. The Brief Fear of ...
Validation of a Holistic Measure for the Construct of Well-Being – The German Version of the Comprehensive Inventory of Thriving (CIT) and the Short Version Brief Inventory of Thriving (BIT)Abstract. The components subjective well-being (SWB), ...
Hohenheim Inventory of Political Knowledge (HIP): Scale ConstructionAbstract. The political knowledge of citizens is regarded as an important basis of a democracy and has been studied extensively. However, no scale ...
The NEP Scale – behind the (German) scenes of environmental concernAbstract. With ongoing environmental problems, the valid measurement of environmental concern and attitudes is still an essential issue in environmental and social psychology research. ...
A Yes / No Vocabulary Test for Children of Different Age Groups: Development and Validation Based on the Rasch ModelAbstract. In this article we present a vocabulary test for German primary school children. The test is based on the ...