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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Measures of Depression"”.
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Evaluating the measurement of infertility and infertility treatment-related depression in women : a multiphase qualitative and quantitative analysis of psychometric properties.
… 2023). Women who are infertile experience rates of depression nearly four times higher than the general population. While depression is a construct of interest for many studies that focus on infertility, little has been done to ensure the psychometric rigor of the measures of depression being …
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Development of the Clark and Becker Scale of Symptomatology (CBS): Symptom-Level Item Performance
Depression and anxiety are common, often comorbid, mental disorders. Many researchers have developed efficient self- and clinician-report measures of depression and anxiety. Most of these existing measures of depression and anxiety measures yield overall or specific subscale scores. The Clark and …
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Psychometric integrity of a measure of dysfunctional separation-individuation in young adolescents
… among college students and adults. The purpose of this study was to validate the psychometric integrity of the Dysfunctional Separation-Individuation Scale in a population of young adolescents. A one factor structure of the 19-item scale was obtained. The scale correlated highly in the expected …
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Performance of Adults With and Without Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) on Measures of Response Inhibition and Frontal Lobe Functioning
In this study 2 groups of adults, those with and without ADHD, were studied in terms of cognitive functioning and symptoms of ADHD, depression, anxiety, and substance abuse. Due to the difficulties in diagnosing ADHD in this population three methods of diagnosis were used and the resulting findings …
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Risk and Promotive Factors for Perinatal Mental Health Problems: Adverse and Benevolent Childhood Experiences and Contemporaneous Support and Stress
<p>Despite a growing body of research on childhood risk and promotive factors for perinatal mental health, as well as extensive research on adulthood risk and promotive factors for these problems, little research considers childhood and adulthood experiences alongside one another. The current study …
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Inadequacy, the psychopathological component of perfectionism: Validation of the Inadequacy Scale
This study tests a new measure of inadequacy and assesses its reliability and validity on a sample of 227 college students. The Inadequacy Scale (INAD) was compared to 2 measures of perfectionism: the Frost-Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (F-MPS) and the Almost Perfect Scale-Revised (APS-R). …
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Depression and Social Support as Moderators of Withon-Person Relationships Between Daily Events and Daily Adjustments During Adolescence
… the events that occurred each day and provided measures of their daily self-esteem and depressogenic adjustment. Adolescents also provided trait measures of depression and social support. Within-person relationships were found between social and achievement, positive and negative daily events …
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Temporality in addiction and counselling psychology practice
… study investigates psychological perspectives of time in a group of sixty-‐three individuals seeking help for alcohol/drug issues and who successfully completed a residential addiction treatment intervention. Measures of subjective time perspective (TP) were taken before and after treatment …
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Testing Theoretical Relationships among Alcohol Use, Drinking to Cope, Mood Regulation Expectancies, and Depression
Participants (N = 164) completed measures of depression, negative mood regulation expectancies, coping motives for alcohol use, alcohol use, and alcohol-related problems allowing for cross-sectional and prospective examinations of theoretically derived hypotheses regarding motivational models for …
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Assessment of Geriatric Depression: Construction of a New Screening Inventory
<p>Geriatric depression is strongly associated with increased healthcare costs, poor treatment outcomes, and mortality. Existing measures of depression in this population do not adequately account for more recent literature describing the presentation of depressed older adults, and thus may result …
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Association of positive, negative, and disorganized schizotypy dimensions with affective symptoms and experiences
Schizotypy offers a useful construct for investigating the etiology, development, and expression of schizophrenia-spectrum psychopathology, as well as the comorbid expression of mood and anxiety disorders across the schizophrenia spectrum. The present study examined the associations of positive, …
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Concurrent Validity Study of the Clinical Assessment of Depression with the Beck Depression Inventory-Second Edition
<p> <p>Depression in adolescents if unrecognized, can interfere with every aspect of the individual’s life, increasing the risk for illness and interpersonal difficulties in the future. Therefore, it is imperative that significant levels of depressive symptoms be recognized, assessed, and treated. …
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Adjustment to Childhood Chronic Illness: Prediction of Psychological Adjustment with an Investigation into Spiritual Coping
… toward the identification and assessment of spirituality as a potential addition to the approach-avoidance paradigm of coping response. Twenty-two children diagnosed with either cancer or sickle cell disease were interviewed, along with their mothers, regarding psychosocial adjustment and …
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Feeling Sad? Maybe You are Just Uncertain! A Predictive Test for Depression
… current study examined the relationship between depression and uncertainty within the stress-diathesis model. Depression is a mental health disorder that is wide spread within our society. However, few causes of this disease have been able to be identified. Studies in uncertainty have shown that …
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Psychosocial Factors and Health-Related Quality of Life in Pediatric Cancer
… are at risk for poorer health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Prior work indicates that HRQOL may change throughout cancer treatment, and some evidence indicates that psychosocial factors affect overall HRQOL. Additional research is needed to examine the trajectory of domain-specific HRQOL …
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From the outside looking in: Sense of belonging, depression, and suicide risk
Sense of belonging has demonstrated significant relationships with depression and suicidal thoughts, highlighting its potential utility in refining assessment of suicide risk. Sense of belonging is conceptualized as an individual’s experience of feeling valued, needed, and accepted by people in his …
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The Characteristics of Depressive Subtypes among Adolescents and Their Role in the Relationship between Weight and Depression
… have sought to fully understand the nature of the relationship between depression and weight. To date, the research in this area has yielded highly inconsistent results, with some identifying null (Crumpton, Wine, & Groot, 1966; Moore, Stunkard, & Srole, 1962), positive (R. E. Roberts, …
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Effects of a learned helplessness task and infant temperament on mothers' responsivity to infant cry sounds
Mothers' susceptibility to the effects of learned helplessness as a function of the perception of her own infants' temperament and exposure to varying degrees of control over infant crying was explored. Seventysix mothers were classified as having a difficult or easy infant based upon ratings of …
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Evaluation of a multidimensional program for sixth graders transitioning from elementary to middle school
… to middle school has been characterized as one of many “normative life crises" that involves both an increased opportunity for psychological growth and a heightened vulnerability to psychological disturbance. Principles from life stress/transition literature and prevention research have been …
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Cold pressor pain and psychophysiological activation in high and low pain catastrophizers
Pain catastrophizing is a robust predictor of heightened pain report. However, theoretical models addressing mechanisms of catastrophizing are lacking. The purpose of this study was to examine whether high and low catastrophizers manifest differential psychophysiological arousal patterns in an …
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