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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"T-scores"”.
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Establishing a Normative Profile on the MMPI-2 for Missionary Candidates
… validity and reduce missionary attrition. Mean T scores were established for the missionary candidate sample on the F, L, and K validity scales and the ten Clinical Scales. Analyses were conducted to compare the mean T scores of the missionary candidate sample to the mean T scores of the …
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Evaluation of Current Decision Rules and Healthcare Professional Practices for Detecting Osteoporosis Risk in the Young Adult Population
… based on age or gender. Participants with T-scores ≤ -1.0 were not more likely to receive bone health education. Area under the receiving operating characteristic (AUROC) curves analysis revealed that no survey tools were able to identify moderate-risk participants at T-scores ≤ -1.0, and …
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Effects of Varying Degrees of Fixed and Random Responding on the Validity of Score Interpretation for the SP and PSY-5 Scales of the MMPI-2-RF
… responding increase SP and PSY-5 Scale mean T-scores and weaken external criterion validity. Further, certain SP and PSY-5 Scales evidenced large changes in mean T-scores at relatively low levels of simulated inconsistent responding. Implications of these results and future areas of …
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MMPI and Rorschach Findings of Individuals Approved for Gender Reassignment Surgery
… on their MMPI-2 clinical scale values and scores on selected Rorschach variables (Exner Comprehensive System). This study compared the MMPI-2 basic scale T-scores from the gender dysphoric sample (56 male-to-female transsexuals and 56 female-to-male transsexuals) to T-scores obtained from a …
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Identifying Autism Spectrum Disorder in a Clinical Sample of Preschool-Aged Children Using the BASC-3 Parent Rating Scales
… the BASC-3. The current study examined whether T-Scores on the DSD content scale on BASC-3 Parent Rating Scales, Preschool Form could identify preschool-aged children diagnosed with an ASD and meaningfully differentiate these children from those diagnosed with other developmental delays. DSD …
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Comparison of Two Bone Mineral Density Pre-Screening Tools: Qus and Ra, to the Dxa
… (1) Determine the relationship between BMD t-scores measured by the QUS and RA devices, compared to the DXA measurement, the gold standard. (2) Examine the agreement between osteoporosis classifications produced by the QUS and RA devices, compared to those produced by the DXA, the gold …
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The Frontal-Temporal Signature of TBI-Induced Acute Cerebral Metabolic Crisis
… with greater frontal-temporal atrophy had T-scores on all of the standard tests that were in the deficit range indicating deficits in cognition. The purpose of the current study is to investigate the ability of direct measures of acute glucose and lactate metabolism to predict recovery of …
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An Investigation of Gender Bias in the Personality Assessment Inventory in a Sample of Military Veterans of the United States
… on gender. There were some mean differences on T-scores of the PAI between men and women with small to medium effect sizes. The factor structures were mostly similar in comparison with the standardization samples and between the veteran samples. Some trends included the Mania (MAN) scale …
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Social skills and attributions of Asperger's Syndrome
… A within-subject design was run for t-scores and the student measured to have the biggest area of weakness in the areas of social awareness, social communication and autistic mannerisms. Due to a social skills group for selected students that were assigned by the school, intervention …
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Video game implementation: learning outcomes and perceptions
… programming skills as indicated by the high t-scores from the participating classes and positive feasibility perceptions from participating teachers.
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Identification of Gifted Characteristics Using the Behavioral Assessment Scale for Children—Third Edition
… did not show at-risk or clinically significant T-scores on the BASC-3 scales. The study limitations, strengths, and directions for future research are presented. Implications for school psychologists are provided for improving gifted identification and better understanding gifted behavioral …
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Self-reported Exercise and Risk of Osteoporosis in Prostate Cancer Patients Receiving Androgen Deprivation Therapy
… exercise, intensity, frequency, bone density T-scores, and serum vitamin D were examined using correlation analysis, as was the relationship between specific types of exercise, measured the same way and bone density T-scores. Furthermore, regression analysis was used to examine for potential …
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Psychometric Functioning of The MMPI-A Restructured Form VRIN-R, TRIN-R, CRIN, and Cannot Say Scales with Varying Degrees of Randomness, Acquiescence, Counter-Acquiescence, and Omitted Items
… how adolescent validity scale and RC scale scores are affected by increasing degrees of non-content-based responding. Further, RC scale validity coefficients were examined to see how increasing degrees of non-content-based responding attenuates these relationships. Lastly, this study …
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The Impact of Marijuana Use on Memory in Patients with HIV/AIDS
… use drugs by comparing the groups on domain T-scores. Participants included 32 current marijuana users and 37 non-drug users. A comprehensive battery assessed substance use and neurocognitive functioning. Among the full sample, marijuana users performed significantly worse on verbal memory …
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College Student Adaptability and Greek Membership: A Single Institution Case Study
… to the demands of the college experience. Raw scores and percentile rankings were determined by t-test calculations. Test scores were expressed through t-scores in relation to the standardized sample. Data show no statistical significance in any of the five areas studied: Overall adjustment, …
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Bone health in Gambian women: impact and implications of rural-to-urban migration and the nutrition transition
… difference, equivalent to 0.76 of rural SD. T- Scores were also calculated using a young adult (white, female) reference population, mean T- scores were -1.03 and -0.22, for rural and urban groups respectively. After adjusting for size, differences in whole-body and hip BMC were mostly …
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THE UTILITY OF THE PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT INVENTORY
… the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) T-scores was investigated. Archival data from closed client files at a university counseling center were used to obtain information from 91 cases of individuals who received testing services and were diagnosed with AD/HD and 91 cases that received …
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A Comparison of Physical Fitness Levels Attained Over a Two Year Period by Elementary School Children using Obstacle-Type Playground Equipment as Against Conventional Equipment
… t test was computed using a program of related t scores in matrix form for 30 variables with means and standard deviations. The random sample t test was also computed on an electronic computer using a program of non related t matrix with associated statistics. The significance was reported only at …
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Weightbearing and Activity Restriction Treatments and Quality of Life in Patients with Perthes Disease
… to compare differences between the mean PROMIS T-scores of these weightbearing/activity regimens. Results were assessed with a significance of p < 0.05 and adjusted for Waldenstrom stage, gender, age of diagnosis, and history of major surgery using multivariate regression analysis. RESULTS: After …
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Multidimensional Pain Inventory: Revised Profile Classification Based on Clinical Observations in a Pain Setting
… different groups depending upon the re-coded scores from their pre-treatment MPI. Patients were grouped according to their MPI subscale scores. In order to determine if the hypotheses were supported or not, paired t-test were completed on six different psychosocial and functional outcome …
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