Zusammenfassung: Kognitive Komplexität wird seit den Theorien von Bieri et al. (1966) und Scott (1962) durch die Anzahl und Eigenschaften der Dimensionen definiert, die Individuen zur kognitiven Strukturierung von Gegenstandsbereichen verwenden. Das ...
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: Einer größeren Lehrerstichprobe (N = 434), die hinsichtlich verschiedener demographischer Merkmale heterogen ist, wird der AVEM (Arbeitsbezogenes Verhaltens- und Erlebensmuster; Schaarschmidt & Fischer, 1996, 1997) vorgelegt. Als ...
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 ...
Zusammenfassung: Der Persönlichkeitsfragebogen für Inhaftierte (PFI) von Seitz (1983) präsentiert für dieses Klientel angemessene Beschreibungsdimensionen des Selbstbildes und der sozialen Einstellungen; es existieren bislang jedoch keine Normen. Mit dem ...
Subjective Appropriateness of Items and the Validity of Personality QuestionnairesSummary: The present study evaluates the impact of the perceived subjective appropriateness of items on the validity of personality questionnaires. 125 participants of both ...
Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of a Brief German Version of the Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire (Brief AEQ-G)Summary: Factor structure, reliability and validity of a German version of the Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire (AEQ) are ...
The Validity of Retrospective Reports: A Comparison of the Parental Rearing Behaviour: Recalled by Young Adults and Their ParentsAbstract: Based on a comparison of the parental rearing behaviour recalled by young adults and their own parents the validity ...
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 ...
Habitual Tendency for Situation Control and Actual Controllability of Aversive Stimuli: An Experimental Validation of the Subtest “Situation Control” of the SVFSummary: This study investigated whether Ss with high in comparison to Ss with low tendency ...
Summary: The association between the ratings and frequency of participation of lectures was examined using teaching evaluation data from the medical faculty of the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Germany. The data base was comprised of a total of N ...
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 ...
Psychometric Evaluation and Validity of the German Translation of the Aggression Questionnaire by Buss and PerrySummary: For the German translation of the aggression questionnaire (Buss & Perry, 1992) it was demonstrated, that when excluding two items ...
Assessment of Change in Psychotherapy with the German Version of the Outcome Questionnaire (OQ-45.2)Summary: Continuous monitoring of psychotherapy outcome requires short and valid instruments with high sensitivity to change. The suitability of the ...
Validity of the German Questionnaire on Aggressive Traffic Behavior (AViS)Abstract: Results for the construct and criterion validity of the questionnaire on aggressive traffic behavior (AViS) are reported (N = 841). The studies of the construct validity ...
Validity of the Vulnerability Model of Pathological GamblingAims: The vulnerability model postulates a triadic explanatory basis for the genesis of pathological gambling. Methods: To validate this model, N = 145 participants (n = 51 pathological gamblers,...
Background: The 2009 Epidemiological Survey of Substance Abuse (ESA) investigates intake and abuse of psychoactive substances in the German general population. Aims: To describe sampling, instruments, data collection, response rate, weighting procedure, ...