JCPP Advances, EarlyView.Growing evidence suggests that difficulties reasoning about others' thoughts, feelings and desires (called ‘mentalizing’ or ‘theory of mind’) cut across many mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions but studies have yet to test this claim directly.
Rory T. Devine +2 more
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The Utility of the Bifactor Method for Unidimensionality Assessment When Other Methods Disagree
SAGE Open, 2016 This article provides an empirical illustration of the utility of the bifactor method for unidimensionality assessment when other methods disagree. Specifically, we used two popular methods for unidimensionality assessment: (a) evaluating the model fit ...
Yong Luo, Khaleel Al-Harbi
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Factorial validity of the Twi versions of five measures of mental health and well-being in Ghana.
PLoS ONE, 2020 BACKGROUND:Mental health is considered an integral part of human health. Reliable and valid measurement instruments are needed to assess various facets of mental health in the native language of the people involved.
Richard Appiah +4 more
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Internal and External Validity of Sluggish Cognitive Tempo in Young Adolescents with ADHD [PDF]
, 2016 Adolescents with Sluggish Cognitive Tempo (SCT) show symptoms of slowness, mental confusion, excessive daydreaming, low motivation, and drowsiness/sleepiness.
Smith, Zoe
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Further considerations regarding Panas: Contributions from four studies with different argentinean samples [PDF]
, 2018 In this research we analyzed the psychometric properties of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) in samples coming from four independent studies: university students (Study 1, n = 392; Study 2, n = 395), general adult population (Study 3, n =
Belaus, Anabel +5 more
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JCPP Advances, EarlyView.Abstract Background Children who show difficult temperament are at risk of peer victimisation, which in turn associates with numerous negative outcomes later in life. We used network analysis to examine whether specific aspects of difficult temperament contributed to these associations, and whether the links were moderated by variations in genetic ...
Tom C.‐H. Wu +5 more
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Heliyon, 2021 Pain catastrophizing is an exaggerated cognitive-affective response to actual or anticipated pain, usually measured by the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS).
Attila Galambos +5 more
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Disparity between General Symptom Relief and Remission Criteria in the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS): A Post-treatment Bifactor Item Response Theory Model. [PDF]
, 2017 Objective: Total scale scores derived by summing ratings from the 30-item PANSS are commonly used in clinical trial research to measure overall symptom severity, and percentage reductions in the total scores are sometimes used to document the efficacy of
Anderson, Ariana E +5 more
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Psychometric evidence of the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory in undergraduate nursing students at a public institution [PDF]
Revista Latino-Americana de EnfermagemObjective: to verify the internal and structural consistency of the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory in young undergraduate nursing students. Method: this is a cross-sectional methodological study carried out with young university students enrolled in the ...
Susane Vasconcelos +5 more
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A comparison of parameter covariance estimation methods for item response models in an expectation-maximization framework [PDF]
, 2017 The Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm is a method for finding the maximum likelihood estimate of a model in the presence of missing data. Unfortunately, EM does not produce a parameter covariance matrix for standard errors.
Pritikin, Joshua N.
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