STUDY OBJECTIVE Sleep related cognitions (e.g., faulty beliefs and appraisals, unrealistic expectations, perceptual and attention bias) play an important role in perpetuating insomnia. This paper presents new psychometric data on an abbreviated version of the Dysfunctional Beliefs and Attitudes about Sleep Scale (DBAS-16), a 16-item self-report measure designed to evaluate a subset of those sle...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread widely leading to a global public health crisis of pandemic proportion. Whilst infection rates tend fluctuate in South Africa, COVID-19 remains life-threatening with the capacity wreak fear and concern. The present study evaluated psychometric qualities Fear Scale (FCV-19S) amongst black African university students ( N = 433; Female: 58%; Mage 23.5...

The present study examined the role of media use in adolescents' cyberbullying behavior. Following previous research, we propose a Cyclic Process Model of face-to-face victimization and cyberbullying through two mediating processes of anger/frustration and antisocial media content. This model was tested utilizing a cross-sectional design with adolescent participants (N=892). Exposure to antisoc...

INTRODUCTION The Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale (LEAS) was developed to assess the emotional awareness construct, based on a cognitive-developmental perspective and influenced by the Piaget and Werner theories. It is composed of 20 emotion-evoking scenes and has been used in multiple researches related to emotion regulation, alexithymia and psychiatric disorders. It is a well-documented, v...

OBJECTIVE To adapt the trait version of the Self Statements during Public Speaking (SSPS) scale to a state version (SSPS-S) and to assess its discriminative validity for use in the Simulated Public Speaking Test (SPST). METHOD Subjects with and without social anxiety disorder (n = 45) were assessed while performing the SPST, a clinical-experimental model of anxiety with seven different phases...

The purpose of this study was to examine the postlecture evaluation by the students taking a course (Tomorrow's Leaders) that attempted to promote their leadership qualities and intrapersonal competencies at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong. Except for the last lecture, students were invited to respond to a 12-item postlecture questionnaire after each lecture. Results showed th...

This paper is the result of research continuance on adaptive user profiling, based on learning predispositions. As the psychometric conditions appear to play a crucial role in the tutoring systems, there emerges a need of constructing efficient instruments, that would help to improve the effectiveness of electronic teaching. It particularly concerns user profiling, grounded on the premises deri...

OBJECTIVE To investigate if the psychometric qualities of an OSCE consisting of more complex simulated patient encounters remain valid and reliable in the assessment of postgraduate trainees in general practice. METHODS In this intervention study without control group, the traditional OSCE was formally replaced by the new, complex version. The study population was composed by all postgraduate...

In the affective misattribution procedure (AMP), pairs of prime and target stimuli appear rapidly in succession. Attitudes toward the prime influence the evaluation of the target despite instructions to avoid this influence. Because this priming effect presumably happens without people's knowledge, the AMP is used to study automatic evaluation. Participants in four studies performed the AMP and...

Observing structured parent-child interaction in clinic analogs has been a tradition in child clinical assessment since the 1960s. The clinic analog is designed to re-create important conditions from natural contexts such that dysfunctional parent-child patterns can be observed and modified. To those basic goals, the modern clinician would add diagnosis and treatment evaluation. Three classes o...