Abstract: Indirect questioning techniques aim to provide more valid prevalence estimates for sensitive attributes than conventional direct questions. Despite being an important prerequisite for high estimation validity, indirect ...
Summary: The Rorschach has been approached from two philosophical traditions: the hermeneutic and the scientific. The dialectical tension between these diverse traditions has led to considerable argument about the professional status of the Rorschach. ...
Summary: In the last 20 years the advent of the Comprehensive System has developed the Rorschach Inkblot Method (RIM) into a standardized and psychometrically sound personality assessment instrument with numerous indices that can be reliably coded, show ...
Summary: Eight interpersonal scales, developed within the Italian lexical context, were tested with respect to different kinds of validity. The observed continuum of interpersonal attributes corresponded to, in terms of content, Wiggins' circumplex (...
Summary: The study investigates the reliability and validity of the Turkish Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS). Scores of the DAS were studied for its reliability and validity. The sample consisted of 264 married individuals. The α coefficient for the DAS was ...
Summary: This study describes the adaptation of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAIC; Spielberger, Edwards, Lushene, Montuori, & Platzek, 1973) to the Greek population. It was hypothesized that the STAIC would be able to measure children'...
Two studies are presented in which the validity of the Star Counting Test (SCT), an attention test for children, was examined. In the first study the test was administered to a sample of 339 elementary school children of 9 years old. In addition, a ...
The aim of this contribution is to present a new short adjective-based measure of the Five Factor Model (FFM) of personality, the Short Adjectives Checklist of BIg Five (SACBIF). We present the various steps of the construction and the validation of this ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate to what level work-related and environmental/personality characteristics explain individual differences in psychological and physical well-being, and absenteeism. The Michigan model, as developed by the ...
We investigated whether the speed of responding to personality questionnaires affects the psychometric quality of the resulting questionnaire scores. Austrian adolescents (n = 106) completed Eysenck's Personality Inventory in a computerized version, which ...
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-...
This study extends previous attempts to assess emotion with single adjective descriptors, by examining semantic as well as cognitive, motivational, and intensity features of emotions. The focus was on seven negative emotions common to several emotion ...
The Big Five are nowadays the standard factors of personality dimensions. Several instruments have been proposed in the last few years for their measurement, either with adjectives or with items. A new state-of-the-art questionnaire to measure the Big ...
Abstract. The aim of the present study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Swedish version of the Self-Concept Questionnaire (SCQ). Data from three samples were used: (1) a representative sample of women (18-30 years) from the general ...
Abstract.Background: The goal of this study was to investigate whether the results of assessments of alexithymia based on a self-report questionnaire, the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS), correlates with those based on drawing content in the Wartegg ...
Abstract. The main objective of this study was to determine the psychometric properties of the Faces Pain Scale (FPS) as a measure of pain intensity for use with elderly Spanish individuals. Results of the Spanish version of this scale (FPS-S) are similar ...
This research evaluated a German version of a recently introduced brief measure of the Big-Five domains (Ten Item Personality Inventory [TIPI]). Since we could not confirm the virtues of the TIPI in a representative, general population-based sample from ...
This study investigates some psychometric properties of the Dutch version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), a brief measure for screening behavioral and emotional problems in children and adolescents. In two independent Flemish ...
Estimates of reliability and validity coefficients for the Gray-Wheelwrights Jungian Types Survey (GW/JTS), which was developed to measure Carl Jung's theory of types, are reported in this article. The GW/JTS is an 81-item forced-choice instrument with ...