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 ...
The German Big Five Inventory 2: Measuring Five Personality Domains and 15 FacetsAbstract. The German version of the 60-item Big Five Inventory 2 (BFI-2) captures the five personality domains Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Negative ...
Development and Validation of a Questionnaire for Measuring Students’ Enjoyment in Physical Education ClassesAbstract. The aim of the present study was the development and validation of an instrument for the assessment of different facets of students’ ...
Validation of a German Version of the Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA)Abstract. Our study aimed at investigating the psychometric properties of a German version of the Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA). The RSA is a multifactorial resilience ...
Disclosure of Grief Questionnaire (DGQ): Development and Validation of a Questionnaire to Assess Communication Patterns After BereavementAbstract. Disclosure of emotional burdensome experiences is important for processing these experiences as well as for ...
Future Secondary Teachers’ German Pedagogical Content Knowledge: Test Construction and ValidationAbstract. Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) is a core facet of professional teacher knowledge. In contrast to mathematics and science subjects, only few PCK ...
Perceived Self-Efficacy in the Management and Prevention of Depression: German Adaptation and Validation of a Brief Self-Report MeasureAbstract. There are indications that perceived self-efficacy in the management and prevention of ...
Early Detection of Psychological Distress in Oncology Care. Empirical Assessment of the Distress ScaleAbstract: The Distress Scale (DS) is a single-item instrument in the form of a 10-point Likert scale in two variants for the ...
Development of a German Scale to Measure Contact Experiences with Health-Impaired PersonsAbstract: Nondisabled people can perceive contact experiences with health-impaired people differently (positively, neutrally, negatively). We ...
Abstract: Organizational changes as a method for ensuring competitiveness are an integral part of an organization’s daily life. A comprehensive understanding of organizational readiness for change is essential for managing change ...
Why Do PhD Students Procrastinate? Adaption and Validation of the Reasons for Academic Procrastination Questionnaire for Doctoral CandidatesAbstract: Most questionnaires in the field of procrastination assess the tendency to ...
Comprehension of Controversial Scientific Themes: Problems, Underlying Cognititves Processes and Psychological InterventionsAbstract. People interested in publically debated scientific issues are often confronted with multiple texts that provide contrary ...
Abstract. A new measure of the Big Five personality constructs, the Openness Conscientiousness Extraversion Agreeableness Neuroticism Index Condensed (OCEANIC), was developed and validated. In Study 1 (N = 166), the convergent validity with the Big Five ...
Zusammenfassung. Das von Wild und Schiefele (1994) vorgestellte Inventar zur Erfassung von Lernstrategien im Studium (LIST) wird an einer Stichprobe von N = 577 berufstätigen Studierenden vier unterschiedlicher Hochschulen untersucht. Die von Wild und ...
Validation of the “Theory of Mind” ScaleAbstract. This study investigated the validity of Wellman and Liu’s (2004) Theory-of-Mind Scale in a German translation (Hofer & Aschersleben, 2004), testing a sample of N = 107 German children aged 3 to 5. Our ...
Questionnaire on the results of psychotherapy: reliability and validity of the German translation of the Outcome Questionnaire 45.2 (OQ-45.2)Abstract.Background: Routine quality management requires instruments, which provide reliable and relevant ...
Psychometric measurement of characteristic signs and symptoms of schizophrenia with the Eppendorf Schizophrenia Inventory (ESI)Abstract.Background: The Eppendorf Schizophrenia Inventory (ESI) measures characteristic subjective signs and symptoms of ...
Validation of a German version of the “Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire” (MLQ Form 5 x Short) by Bass and Avolio (1995)Abstract. Increasing organizational change and new demands in the field of leadership have evoked a growing interest in the ...
Psychometric properties of a German adaptation of the Transformational Leadership Inventory (TLI) by PodsakoffAbstract. It was examined whether the Transformational Leadership Inventory (TLI; Podsakoff, MacKenzie & Bommer, 1996; Podsakoff, MacKenzie, ...
Der zum Zwecke der Personalauswahl entwickelte Analytische Test (AT) dient der Erfassung der Fähigkeit zum induktiven und deduktiven schlussfolgernden Denken bei Bewerbern im oberen Fähigkeitsbereich. Zur Erhöhung der Akzeptanz und zur Verbesserung der ...
Validation of the Instrument for Stress-Related Job Analysis for Hospital PhysiciansJob stress in hospitals negatively affects physicians’ health and the quality of patient care. In order to improve working conditions in hospitals, an instrument for ...
A new research stream in the field of leadership that has been linked to managerial ethics is servant leadership. The present study investigated the psychometric properties of a German version of the multidimensional Servant Leadership Survey (SLS) ...
The development and validation of an evidence-based leadership competency model (LEaD: Leadership Effectiveness and Development)Assessing leadership competences and developing executives represent key tasks of every HR strategy. Surprisingly, many ...
Ethical Leadership: Psychometric Properties of a German Adaption of the Ethical Leadership at Work Questionnaire (ELW-D)The aim of this study was to test the psychometric properties of a German adaption of the Ethical Leadership at Work Questionnaire by ...
Validation of a German Short Form of the Communicator Style Measure (CSM-D)Abstract. The aim of the present study was the adaptation of the English version of the Communicator Style Measure (CSM) by Robert Norton (1983) into German. Norton (1983) ...
Abstract. This research redefined the job demands–resources (JD-R) job crafting model (Tims & Bakker, 2010) to resolve theoretical and empirical inconsistencies regarding the crafting of job demands and developed a German version of the Job Crafting Scale ...
Development of a Measurement Instrument for the Assessment of Central Aspects of the New Way of Work (“Arbeit 4.0”)Abstract. The aim of this contribution is to present a questionnaire for the assessment of central aspects of the “new ...
Development and first evaluation of an instrument to document art and design therapy processesAbstract. This article presents a newly developed instrument for art therapy process documentation, together with a ...
Abstract:Theoretical Background: Positive mental health is not simply the absence of a mental disorder. We need a better understanding of the development of mental health, particularly if we are to better understand prevention, ...
Validation of the German Short Version of the Maslach-Burnout-Inventory for Students (MBI-SS KV)Abstract. The Maslach Burnout Inventory was shortened and translated into German for use with university students. The ...
Zusammenfassung. Der Test of Performance Strategies (TOPS; Thomas, Murphy & Hardy, 1999) ist ein Fragebogen zur Erfassung psychischer Techniken und Fertigkeiten, die Athleten im Training und Wettkampf verwenden. Auf der Basis einer Stichprobe von 378 ...
Der ATHLETE (Hinton & Kubas, 2005) ist ein speziell für Sportlerinnen entwickelter Fragebogen, der sportspezifische psychosoziale Risikofaktoren für gestörtes Essverhalten erfasst. Ein vergleichbares deutschsprachiges Instrument existiert bisher nicht. ...
Development and Validation of a Measure of Sports Interests in Adolescence (SPIT)Abstract. In vocational and educational psychology, but not in sport and exercise psychology, interests are a central personality construct ...
Validation of the German translation of the Psychopathy Personality Inventory (PPI)Abstract.Background: There is no German-language self-report instrument for the personality construct “psychopathy”. The Psychopathy Personality Inventory (PPI) (...
Assessment of blood-injection-injury fear. Development and validation of a new instrumentAbstract.Background: We planned to develop a valid, German language questionnaire with a clear factor structure for the assessment of blood-injury fear. Objective: ...
KERF–An instrument for measuring adverse childhood experiences: Construction and psychometric evaluation of the German MACE (Maltreatment and Abuse Chronology of Exposure) scaleBackground: Adverse childhood experiences increase the risk of ...
Validation of a German Version of the Ruminative Thought Style Questionnaire (RTS-D)Abstract.Background: The Ruminative Thought Style Questionnaire (RTS) was designed to assess a ruminative style of thinking independently of the content, temporal ...
Concurrent Construct Validity of the Düsseldorf Orthorexia Scale: Correlations With Diet Quality and Specific Dimensions of Disordered Eating BehaviorAbstract.Background: Orthorexic eating behavior is defined as a ...
When Studying Gets Out of Control. The Development and Validation of a German Adaptation of the Bergen Study Addiction Scale (BStAS)Abstract:Background: The present study develops and validates a German adaptation of the Bergen Study ...
Zusammenfassung. Das Berufsbild Bankkauffrau/-mann hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren grundlegend verändert. Im Mittelpunkt der Ausbildung steht heute die Entwicklung kunden- und marktorientierter Handlungskompetenz. Der vorgelegte Praxisbericht ...
Measuring self-leadership: Psychometric test of the German version of the Revised Self-Leadership QuestionnaireAbstract. A short German version of the Revised Self-Leadership Questionnaire by Houghton and Neck (2002) was examined with regard to scale ...